Chloe Pitkoff ’21
Laloland
On View: April 22-27, 2021
In Laloland, I can make sense of the world around me, manipulate and invent my environment and exaggerate reality. Through color, pattern, symbols, texture, fashion, hairstyle and facial expression, the creation of Laloland allows me to think, explore and define drastic historical and innately personal moments in my life. With the completion of a piece, I am left with a sense of understanding, a release of a collection of ideas that makes space for the next mystery to be solved, and the hope that through the familiar and intimate nature of my self-portrait based characters you can find a sense of solidarity- and maybe have a little fun, too. Laloland is loud, silly but organized, humorous while taking itself seriously, and a place where religion, social turmoil and responsibility can be captured in a single pose and held forever in a moment or temporarily fly away, allowing whimsy and playfulness to prevail.
Chloe Pitkoff is pursuing a BA in studio art at Davidson College, NC, US. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Chloe has studied and had her work displayed at The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, The Guggenheim, Bridgeview School of Fine Arts, The Cooper Union, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music&Art and Performing Arts. She is the illustrator of That Baby in the Manger by Anne E. Neuberger and contributed illustrations to Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints by Daneen Akers.