About Chloe
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
Year One
Made in Maine
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Mountain RoomAcrylic and gouache on panel; 10 x 10 inches
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Blaze HousesAcrylic and gouache on panel; 9 x 12 inches
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The Four Seasons: True Timber Harvest, Real Tree Snow Color, True Timber Conceal Green, Meadow Grass GreenFabric, wood; 80 x 20 inches
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Idyllic Landscape UnitPainted, sewn, and stuffed canvas; AstroTurf; photographic print on vinyl; hand-knit wool yarn; 60 x 90 x 65 inches
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Idyllic Landscape UnitPainted, sewn, and stuffed canvas; AstroTurf; photographic print on vinyl; hand-knit wool yarn; 60 x 90 x 65 inches
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MythHand and needle-felted sheep and alpaca wool; Wire; Contact paper on cardboard; 45 x 13 x 42 inches
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Downtime Rivers: 6 Weeks Until SpringHand-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.
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Inaugural WinterDetail
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Inaugural WinterHand-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.
The Hunter and the Hunted: Made to Measure
The Hunter and The Hunted: Made to Measure presents a lexicon of essential elements and principles that establish the foundation of The Hunter and The Hunted series. The elements and principles of The Hunter and The Hunted are light, warmth, surface, measurement, visibility, organization, transformation, honesty, history, and time. Most of the projects included in the exhibition at McDaniel College were created specifically for the Rice Gallery and are grounded in both institutional and personal memories: I was a McDaniel College student from 2005–2007 and am currently a full-time faculty member. The space that is now the Rice Gallery served as the College’s library from 1909–1961, and for the duration of this exhibition, serves as a library for this body of work. I felt it important to present the building blocks of The Hunter and The Hunted series in an academic setting instilled with its own foundational elements: the seven liberal arts.
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HH: LightInstallation view at McDaniel College, September 2018. The exhibition included a site-specific installation in the gallery windows made from Contact paper and cellophane.
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Installation view at McDaniel College
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Lies Above / Lies HierThe placement of this work in the gallery references the stained glass window ceiling above. The ceiling is a replica of the original stained glass piece, which currently lives in Hoover Library’s Board Room. “Lies hier” in German, a language I studied for 5 years, translates to “Read here,” a reference to the Rice Gallery’s past use as the College’s library.
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Cascading WarmthCascading Warmth Mylar blankets 84 x 56 inches 2018
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HH: OutfitterHH: Outfitter Canvas, embroidery, fishing lures 60 x 28 inches 2018
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HH: RevelationHH: Revelation Bleach on denim, cotton fringe, dyed canvas 2018
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HH: TopographyHH: Topography Wool, steel wool, chicken wire, birch wood, Astroturf, yarn 2018
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Topography detail
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HH: StorageSewn canvas with grommets, 2018
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HH: Trophy QuiltHH: Trophy Quilt Quilt composed of sewn camoflage and blaze orange hunting textile panels. 17 x 6 ft 2018