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About Chloe

Carroll County

Chloe Irla grew up outside of Richmond, VA but moved around a lot as a teenager. She attended McDaniel College before receiving an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited nationally and in Sofia, Bulgaria, Vancouver, BC, and Gimpo, Korea. Chloe has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Wassaic Project. As an educator, she has… more

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Year One

From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I collected data about my daughter's first year of life and created digital, timeline-like drawings about her daily schedule. I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. I began the project with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions.
  • Month 1
    Month 1
    Month 1
  • Weeks 1–4
    Weeks 1–4
    Weeks 1–4
  • Month 6
    Month 6
    Month 6
  • Months 1, 3, 6, 9, 12
    Months 1, 3, 6, 9, 12
    Months 1, 3, 6, 9, 12
  • Installation view at Montpelier Arts Center
    Installation view at Montpelier Arts Center
  • Installation view at Montpelier Arts Center
    Installation view at Montpelier Arts Center
  • Installation view at Rehoboth Art League
    Installation view at Rehoboth Art League
  • Installation view at Rehoboth Art League
    Installation view at Rehoboth Art League
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    • Made in Maine

    Work created while living in Farmington, ME, a rural community in central, western Maine.
    • Mountain Room
      Mountain Room
      Acrylic and gouache on panel; 10 x 10 inches
    • Blaze Houses
      Blaze Houses
      Acrylic and gouache on panel; 9 x 12 inches
    • The Four Seasons: True Timber Harvest, Real Tree Snow Color, True Timber Conceal Green, Meadow Grass Green
      The Four Seasons: True Timber Harvest, Real Tree Snow Color, True Timber Conceal Green, Meadow Grass Green
      Fabric, wood; 80 x 20 inches
    • Idyllic Landscape Unit
      Idyllic Landscape Unit
      Painted, sewn, and stuffed canvas; AstroTurf; photographic print on vinyl; hand-knit wool yarn; 60 x 90 x 65 inches
    • Idyllic Landscape Unit
      Idyllic Landscape Unit
      Painted, sewn, and stuffed canvas; AstroTurf; photographic print on vinyl; hand-knit wool yarn; 60 x 90 x 65 inches
    • Myth
      Myth
      Hand and needle-felted sheep and alpaca wool; Wire; Contact paper on cardboard; 45 x 13 x 42 inches
    • Downtime Rivers: 6 Weeks Until Spring
      Downtime Rivers: 6 Weeks Until Spring
      Hand-knit yarns; wooden dowel; 84 x 36 x 5 inches Downtime Rivers: 6 Weeks Until Spring is a project that began on Groundhog Day when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring. Each river was knitted over a weeklong period during any downtime I had between teaching, grading, etc. The longer the river, the more cooped up I was during that week.
    • Inaugural Winter
      Inaugural Winter
      Detail
    • Inaugural Winter
      Inaugural Winter
      Hand-dyed and needle felted wool; 84 x 70 inches. Inaugural Winter: Selected Sunrise/Sunset Times, Nov.-March 2013 is a hand-sewn, needle-felted wool blanket that is a graph of data I collected on a blog (mainewinter.tumblr.com) throughout the season that tracked the time I noticed darkness, the color of the sky, and the outside temperature at that time. The length of each bar represents the amount of darkness during that particular day, with the shortest day having only about 8-9 hours of daylight in a 24-hour period.
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