‘Looker’ featuring Chloe West

January 3 - January 31, 2020

St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present Looker featuring St. Louis artist Chloe West. The exhibition opens on Friday, January 3 and runs through Friday, January 31.

Chloe West creates paintings that investigate the body and its relationship to the spaces it inhabits. She paints the surfaces of the everyday, enfleshing material skins. Objects such as windows and linoleum tiles are presented with works that show fragmented views of the body: contrasting materials of banality with moments of intimacy. Together, these works create a nonlinear narrative that explores the subjectivity of the body as it relates to place. The painting process is durational, tender, and engages in deep looking to question the gaze and themes of accessibility.

Chloe West was born in Wyoming where she earned a BFA from the University of Wyoming. West currently lives and works in St. Louis, MO where she received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. She has exhibited work in solo and group shows nationally, most recently at PRACTISE in Oak Park, IL and G-CADD in Granite City, IL. West’s move from Wyoming to St. Louis has influenced her current work that deals with themes of interiority, the gaze, and how spaces imprint upon the body.