"The human eye can detect approximately .0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum. The human ear can hear roughly .00001% of the sound frequency spectrum. These statistics were pulled directly, without fact checking, from an AI trained on just .05% of the indexed internet. As the AI summarized with unprompted poetic flair: We are essentially looking at reality through a very narrow keyhole. Chloe Wise's paintings are vignettes in a keyhole."
"What lurks beyond the horizon of perception? Beyond the tight confines of language, image, time, and space that hold all that is known and knowable? Maybe UFOs-one of Wise's long-held fascinations. Maybe monsters, ghosts, spirits, gods, angels, demons, death, sex-little deaths-or, most frightening of all, nothing. Like a good horror movie again, Wise doesn't depict what her subjects see."
Chloe Wise's Myth Information paintings examine the narrowness of human perception and the proximity of an unknowable void. Stylish, retropop figures occupy vignette-like frames, their apparent naiveté offset by hints of something beyond image, language, time, and space. The works invoke UFOs, monsters, spirits, gods, and the threat of nothingness while borrowing horror tropes, classical motifs, and cinematic grammar. Brushwork and beauty merge with genre play to recast Renaissance and Baroque themes through a Scooby Doo–tinged, Spielberg-meets-Caravaggio sensibility, as subjects shift from obliviousness to upward glances that register failing frameworks.
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