American artist
Chloë Bass (born 1984) is an American conceptual artist who works in performance and social practice .[ 1] Bass' work focuses on intimacy.[ 2] She was a founding co-lead organizer of Arts in Bushwick from 2007 to 2011, the group that organizes Bushwick Open Studios.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY , and holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Brooklyn College .[ 6] [ 7] Bass was a regular contributor to Hyperallergic until 2018.[ 8] She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates.[ 9]
Early life and education
Bass was born in New York City in 1984 and lived on the Upper West Side . In 2002, she moved to New Haven to pursue a BA in Theatre Studies at Yale University . Two labor strikes in 2003, including a dining hall workers' strike,[ 10] strongly affected Bass' undergraduate experience and influenced her later involvement with organizing.[ 11]
She completed her MFA in Performance and Interactive Media at Brooklyn College in 2011.[ 12]
Career
Bass moved to Bushwick in 2006. In Bushwick she became a co-lead organizer of Arts in Bushwick (2007-2011), and helped to organize Bushwick Open Studios, a project of which she is now critical, saying that "ultimately the damaging effect [of BOS] has been greater than the fun."[ 12] While living in that part of Brooklyn in a loft ,[ 12] Bass worked to register the area's voters and, as a result of a displacement mapping project, gained a seat on Community Board 4 , which she held until 2012.[citation needed ]
In 2011, Bass moved to an apartment in Bed-Stuy , where she currently lives.[ 12] In 2014 she was the Create Change resident for the Laundromat Project in Bed-Stuy, creating a work called The Department of Local Affairs . For this work she collected information in the form of writing, drawing , and conversation by and for locals, examining what this looked like in contrast to information collected by companies for advertising or tourism.[ 12]
Bass' eight-chapter project from 2015 to 2017 exploring individual social interactions, The Book of Everyday Instruction , has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and other venues.[ 13] [ 14] Chapters from this work have included creating poetic installations in bathrooms and inviting gallery goers to smell jars of spice.[ 15] [ 16] Her work has been exhibited at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts ,[ 17] Cooper Union ,[ 18] The Bronx Museum of the Arts ,[ 19] the Neuberger Museum of Art ,[ 20] The Knockdown Center ,[ 21] and Momenta Art ,[ 22] amongst other venues. She is the recipient of residencies at The Laundromat Project,[ 23] Bemis Center ,[ 24] Triangle Arts Association ,[ 25] and Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel (LMCC) Workspace residency,[ 26] and was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.[ 27]
In 2019 the Studio Museum in Harlem commissioned her first institutional solo exhibition, Wayfinding (2019) at St. Nicholas Park .[ 28] She later toured the work nationally, and created a new site-specific section for Los Angeles' Skirball Cultural Center .
References
^ Schwendener, Martha (2014-02-07). "A Review of 'Dear Diary: Update on All' in Purchase" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "An Interview with Chloë Bass" . AMLIT . September 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ "An Excerpt from Making History Bushwick" . Arts in Bushwick . 2016-09-26. Archived from the original on 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Escaping from the Art Market - The L Magazine" . www.thelmagazine.com . 27 May 2009. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Making History Bushwick" . Arts in Bushwick . 2016-09-21. Archived from the original on 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Social Practice Queens | Faculty and Staff" . www.socialpracticequeens.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Studio Faculty" . Queens College Art Department . 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Chloë Bass – Hyperallergic" . Hyperallergic . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ "Chloë Bass - Artists - Alexander Gray Associates" . www.alexandergray.com . Retrieved 2023-06-02 .
^ Lee, Shinzong; Massad, Caroline (August 28, 2003). "Hundreds of Yale workers go on strike" . yaledailynews.com . Retrieved 2020-02-15 .
^ "Profile: Chloë Bass (1984-)" . Black Art Story . 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-07-20 .
^ a b c d e "Chloe Bass - Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Activism in Bushwick, NY" . Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Activism in Bushwick, NY . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ "The Book of Everyday Instruction, Chapter Four: "It's amazing we don't have more fights." " . MoMA.org . Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
^ "Chloë Bass" . Buffalo AKG Art Museum .
^ "A Langston Hughes Short Story Inspired a Contemporary Art Exhibition" . Creators . 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "How Art Making Is a Type of Management" . Hyperallergic . 2017-02-06. Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Once More, with Feeling" . EFA Project Space . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "WOUND: mending time and attention | The Cooper Union" . cooper.edu . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Bronx Calling - Exhibitions - The Bronx Museum of the Arts" . www.bronxmuseum.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Dear Diary: Update All" . Neuberger Museum of Art . Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
^ "Chloë Bass: The Book of Everyday Instruction" . The Knockdown Center . Retrieved 2018-05-10 .
^ "history" . www.momentaart.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Chloë Bass | The Laundromat Project" . laundromatproject.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts : Exhibitions : Exhibitions : Urban Design Lab" . www.bemiscenter.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "ALUMNI" . www.triangle-arts-association.org . Retrieved 2018-01-12 .
^ "Chloë Bass - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council" . Lower Manhattan Cultural Council . Retrieved 2018-01-11 .
^ "Chloë Bass – Rema Hort Mann Foundation" . www.remahortmannfoundation.org . Retrieved 2018-01-11 .
^ "Chloë Bass: Wayfinding" . The Studio Museum in Harlem . 2019-08-29. Retrieved 2020-02-15 .
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