Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass's work is part of lone some, an exhibition seeking to inspire and provoke questions about what it means to experience loneliness, the exhibition's art works are featured on 25 independent public sites around the Bay Area.

Viewers can use the following phone line to connect more closely with the artist:
(408) 777-2102

I made you in my image draws from the textual style and archival images used in Bass's project Wayfinding, which was commissioned by the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2019, and remains on view in St. Nicholas Park, Harlem, New York City. The image is an "excerpt" of a family photograph found in the New York Public Library's Media Collection, cropped to show only a gesture of holding. The text is a fourth suggested question after Wayfinding's three central focus questions: How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of love is attention? All four of these questions, and in particular How much of sight is invention? ask viewers to consider the relationship between people and cities as familial: the ways we are and are not able to be close to, or truly seen by, those we love, and the moments in which family love can leave us feeling more isolated or alone than we might imagine, from the outside, would be the emotional result of family structure.

Chloë Bass
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Bass has held numerous fellowships and residencies, most recently as a 2020-2022 Lucas Artists Fellow at Montalvo and 2019 Arts Matters Grantee. Her projects have appeared nationally and internationally, including recent exhibits at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshave in Wilhelmshaven, Germany; BAK basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, Netherlands; and The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; among many others. Bass’ short-form writing has been published on Hyperallergic, Arts Black, and Walker Reader. Her monograph was published by The Operating System in 2018 and she also has a chapbook, #sky #nofilter, forthcoming from DoubleCross Press. Bass is an Assistant Professor of Arts at Queens College, City University New York, where she co-runs Social Practice Queens with Gregory Sholette. Learn more about Chloë Bass at www.chloebass.com.

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CONVERSATION #5
(JULY 30, 2020) How much of sight is invention?
On July 30, 2020, lone some participant Chloë Bass was joined by photographer Jules Allen to discuss the power of image construction for public presentation and the secrets they hold.

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How much of sight is invention?
On July 30, 2020, lone some participant Chloë Bass was joined by photographer Jules Allen to discuss the power of image construction for public presentation and the secrets they hold.
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