Bio

Chloë Hammond is a painter graduated from Maine College of art for her Bfa in May of 2021. After graduation she traveled across the states to Tucson, Az. Chloë is known for combining her watercolors with a variety of materials; stitched together fabrics, organic matter, video installation, and sound. Her work portrays fragments of how time unfolds and how we hold onto memories in our lives and the connections we personally have with the environment around us. Right now, Chloës work is focused on Aptegwai Handmade art buisness in February of 2021. Aptegwai Handmade artworks can be found under the ‘Aptegwai Shop’ button on this website or @aptegwai_handmade and @smalldoormiracle on instagram.

Artist statement

Through watercolor, stitched-together fabric scraps, overlapped projection video and sound, I have been interested in showing fragmentation of the past and connections in family histories. How these recollections make up who we are as individual people and the connections we have to where and who we come from. These ideas evolve into an interest in time-travel, the study of tribology and obsessive touch of the maker in the work. I have been experimenting with how to include visuals, sounds and smell into my installations by using mediums such as plant matter, fabrics that hold personal meaning and experimenting with photography and film projection. My aim is to communicate the disillusions we have of our pasts and the relationships we have to land and environment that follow those disillusions. 

I think of paintings, photographs and videos as time travel, because memories can sometimes bring us to many different places and times at once. Honoring the importance of our pasts, learning for the future. I hand stitch garments from old scraps of fabric that hold personal meaning. This becomes a big focus in my work as they represent the energy and wear that was once put onto these materials, and over time they become something new. My work has morphed into a variety of mediums to be obsessively touched because I believe creations made with our hands can hold our spirits.  

CV

Group Exhibitions; 

2021 Unearthed show at Subspace gallery in Tucson, AZ

2020 Free Fall show at Sistered Gallery in Portland, ME

2020 Maine College of Art BFA Thesis show 

2019 Maine College of Art BFA show 

2017 Haverhill Art Association juried show

2014-2017 Newburyport Art Association juried show 

Publications and Collaborative Publications: 

2015 Massachusetts, The Marble Collection Winter 2015