Chloe Luisa Piñero, "Blue Velvet"

Oil paint, spray paint, chalk pastel, charcoal, found objects, and printed image on canvas
 
12 x 9” , 2024
 
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Working primarily in painting and collage, Piñero extracts imagery and objects from her physical and digital environments to create work that draws from personal histories, while posing broader questions about collective identity embedded in image, object, and material. Through assemblage and mixed media works, Piñero explores the multilayered experiences of mixed-race and queer identities. Her process involves sourcing objects from everyday spaces—discount stores, beauty supply shops, vintage lesbian archives, adult magazines, and digital platforms such as Instagram. Much of her work seeks to disrupt conventional representations of the female body in figurative painting through the use of unconventional materials and fragmented compositions. The hybrid bodies that emerge deconstruct dominant representations of femininity, desire, and beauty found in both mainstream media and the painting canon. The concept of “the grotesque” functions as a critical framework through which Piñero challenges, reclaims, and reimagines queer and femme representation within visual culture. 
 
Chloe Luisa Piñero received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2018. She has served as a visiting artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2024 and participated in the Apprenticeship Program at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia in 2023. Her recent solo exhibitions include The Only Way Out Is Through at Hyacinth Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Morph Erotic Dream from a Magazine at Blah Blah Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2023); In Between and All at Once at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Philadelphia, PA (2022–23). Piñero currently lives and works between Philadelphia and Naples, Italy.