"All of Wise's subjects are looking up, though it's not clear at what - she suggests angels, and has cited El Greco's The Vision of Saint John as an influence - or perhaps UFOs, which constitute another of her "long-held fascinations.""
"Her works attempt to draw a line through "religious art, historical painting, and sci-fi cinema," which are "not so dissimilar.""
"Maybe they're after the same thing, just through a different modality."
Chloe Wise's Myth Information at Almine Rech in Tribeca features 14 paintings that engage ecstatic, mysterious experiences and probe the limits of human perception. All painted subjects gaze upward toward unspecified phenomena; suggested referents include angels and El Greco's The Vision of Saint John, as well as UFOs noted as a long-held fascination. The paintings link religious art, historical painting, and sci-fi cinema through visual and thematic parallels. Wise frames these modes as seeking similar ends via different modalities. The works combine historical influence, spiritual imagery, and speculative elements to foreground uncertainty about what humans can see and know.
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