Digging Deep: The Remnants of Childhood in the Age of Adulthood

Exhibitions

Featuring the work of Chloe Bachstein, January 25 - February 5, 2023

Artist Statement

The idealized world of a child is filled with vivid color, the desire to explore, and the important formulation of relationships. It is these relationships that create the foundation of socialization and fond memories that can last a lifetime. These memories at first are true to life and brightly colored. Unfortunately, as the child becomes an adult memories fade and new memories are formed. Adult childhood memories instead live within photographs, storytelling, and a few distant memories. The exhibition Digging Deep: Remnants of Childhood in the Age of Adulthood commemorates the wonder of childhood, what it means to understand our individual experience and how we choose what memories to remember. Using vibrant and florescent colors in oil and plexiglass, the artist highlights key moments within the process of growing out of childhood, while also exploring the inner-child qualities we often experience and seek out in adulthood.

As a dual major in Art Education and Drawing, Chloe Bachstein often incorporates her knowledge and experience teaching K-12 within her creative practice. She believes in the importance of exploration in childhood and the continuation throughout adulthood. This ideology began her journey in laser cutting, shifting her work from a single plane to multiple planes and dynamic 3D compositions. Integrating laser-cut designs has allowed Bachstein to express her view of the surrounding world in a new medium while continuing her traditional practice within oil painting and drawing. Thus, Digging Deep- Remnants of Childhood in the Age of Adulthood, was created.

About Chloe Bachstein

Chloe Bachstein grew up on a horse farm in the coastal town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Influenced by her family of artists exploring various mediums, Bachstein grew up constantly experimenting and visualizing the world through art. Often displayed with vivid colors, these explorations continue today through her integration of laser cut technology within her oil painting compositions. Chloe Bachstein is completing her BFA in Art Education, BFA in Art + Design: Drawing, as well as a minor in Art History in the Spring of 2023. She has shown at Gallery X of New Bedford and her work has been featured in The Herald News. Chloe Bachstein continues to seek new innovative ways to depict the human form in its relation to the natural world and our individual life experiences.