Chloe Rees is an Chinese-American fine artist living in Brooklyn NY (b 1998). Her oil paintings explore sex, stereotypes and amelioration. Her work is naïve in style, and made up of bold and blended brushstrokes. She graduated from Pratt Institute and has been in various DIY art shows. She likes debauchery and spirituality.
Chloe Rees’ work is about desire, longing and fetishization. She examines the extremes of loving something too much, or receiving too little in return. Her work contrasts hard and soft core imagery to interrogate archaic standards of beauty, sexuality, morality, and social status. She uses humor to highlight the seriousness of degrading through stereotypes. Rees is influenced by the containment of graphic design aesthetics, and freely samples from popular culture. Through aggressive eroticism, rough brush strokes, and humor she repackages the information age. By decontextualizing language, she transforms text to object then subject, and finally, debases it. Rees is interested in sex and violence, the two dominant methods of control, and how they're related to intimacy and love.