ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chloe Fine was born in Denver, Colorado in 2001. She studied art from an early age taking classes at the Art Students’ League of Denver and majoring in Visual Arts at Denver School of the Arts (2014-2019). She acquired her Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis in painting and printmaking and minor in interdisciplinary studies at San Diego State University (2019-2023). As part of her degree, she studied painting and printmaking at L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze through California State University Florence Center (2022). She taught weekly art classes for children ages four to fifteen at Art Scöl La Jolla (2020-2023). 

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Her work for the last two years has been focused on ideas related to self-presentation. She feels most driven to create when she comes across a concept that she does not completely understand or have a fully developed stance on and uses her painting process to examine the idea. These concepts are often influenced by feminist literature and critical media theory and then applied to her own experience and that of her subjects. She explores these highly contemporary issues and subjects with traditional oil painting techniques, visually rooting them in history. Her most recent series, “Getting Ready”, compared and examined the processes that several different individuals used to put on their makeup, dress, style their hair, etc. in order to feel presentable to the public. Through these paintings, she seeks to present a nuanced picture of the seemingly mundane getting ready experience, highlighting the ways it can be both oppressive and empowering. Her current body of work branches off from the aspect of materiality that appeared in her research for the “Getting Ready” series. In this series, she examines the relationship between consumers and the products they own in service of their identity, aiming to highlight how they can range from meaningful, confining, or even predatory.