Chloë Bass
Site: Mesa Home
Emerging from her ongoing project Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place, Chloë Bass presents a film and series of prints at Mesa Home, as well as an intervention into the Benton Park West newsletter. Obligation To Others Holds Me In My Place is a poetic investigation of the family format, particularly focusing on American mixed race families. The project is an unfolding, multiform family album that serves to question the linear narrative of racial progress. Within the home goods store Mesa Home, Bass creates a space of uneven domesticity, intimacy, and celebration to suggest the profound and everyday nature of interracial families. On May 2nd at 7pm, she extends the installation through a performance and screening of This Is a Film at Artist Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. Chloë has held numerous fellowships and residencies; 2018’s include a residency at Denniston Hill, the Recess Analog Artist-in-Residence, and a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship. Her projects have appeared nationally and internationally, including recent exhibits at the Knockdown Center, the Kitchen, the Brooklyn Museum, CUE Art Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the James Gallery, and elsewhere. Reviews, mentions of, and interviews about her work have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Temporary Art Review, and Artnews among others. Her forthcoming monograph will be published by The Operating System in Fall 2018; she also has a chapbook, #sky #nofilter, forthcoming from DoubleCross Press. Her short-form writing has been published on Hyperallergic, Arts.Black, and the Walker Reader. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Queens College, CUNY, where she co-runs Social Practice Queens with Gregory Sholette.
