Chloe Park (b. 1986) is a Korean American sculptor, predominantly working in the medium of clay. Chloe lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Chloe Park is best known for her layered, meticulously constructed works that trace the undercurrents of systems of value, sociology, human connection and the interconnected thread of life.
She is extremely invested in the existential quest of unveiling, revealing, and becoming privy to the hidden and unspoken, behind the scenes resource extraction, displacement, circulation, and movement of events that create the structures that determine the environments in which we live.
As the world presents itself to us very partially, almost in a psychotic way at times, she is committed to the practice of revealing the reality beyond the fantasy- what is actually going on and the things we do not see.
An innate interest in challenging authority and social norms, as many artists are, an inner montage of realizing that one’s life can be different can be seen in the webbing of her work- whether it be the hegemonic confines that uphold society or the characteristics and traits that are more rooted in survival and manipulative by nature.
A consistent undertow of what is not being said, as much as it is being said, a sustained effort and play between presence and absence surrogates the thought to serve as sculptural and physical, ceramic forms.
The honest desire for curiosity serve as a giant act of will, revelation and realization in the journey of the Self. The quality of her motivation comes from finding form in concept with the pleasure of the ideas returning, refining, reappearing, and manifesting itself in different ways, similar themes in different forms as a chord progression traveling within a song.
A sense of recognition that is pleasurable to experience from the seeing of the Self as movements in a sonata reflect the essential need for community and likeminded individuals on the common and amplified objective to affect the world in a positive way.
Chloe’s work has been featured in Vogue US, Vanity Fair UK, House & Garden and The World of Interiors. She has exhibited at Salone del Mobile in Milan and has spent time as A.I.R at La Meridiana in Tuscany. Chloe is a former Set Designer/Art Director in the Fashion and Entertainment Industry. She is classically trained in Ikebana Ikenobo, Kyoto, Japan, with the essence of moribana infused in her practice.
To get in touch for commissions and/or collaborations, please email: info@chloeparkstudio.com
