Queering the Lines by Caroline Chandler

Art League Houston (ALH) is excited to present Queering the Lines, an exhibition of works by New York based artist Caroline Wells Chandler. The exhibition features paintings of celestial bodies in ceramic drag, as well as, hand crocheted drawings and sculptures of bears, antennas, equine familiars, and the axis mundi to explore notions of queerness in all its rainbow spectrum glory!

Fluent in the language of kitsch, Chandler's works are Neo-Sublime. The Neo-Sublime simultaneously explores the conflicting emotions of awe, shock, horror, and joy executed via the tactile in effort to bridge the subconscious with the conscious mind.

Chandler does not seek to isolate his work by gender, but to use the work to elevate queerness to the same level of universality as heteronormativity. The etymology of queer comes from old German terkwh, meaning to turn, twist, and wind and accurately describes the process and primary medium of this show: crochet.

ABOUT CAROLINE WELLS CHANDLER

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Caroline Wells Chandler currently lives and works in New York. He completed his foundation studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and received his BFA cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 2007. He has shown at numerous institutions including: Zurcher Studio (NY), Anna Kustera (NY), Field Projects (NY), Vox Populi (PA), Sanctuary (PA), N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (MI), Open Gallery (TN), The Bascom (NC), Arlington Arts Center (VA), and the Stieglitz Museum ('s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) among others. Chandler is a 2011 MFA recipient in painting at the Yale School of Art where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. He lives and works in New York. Queering the Lines will mark the third solo show within a year for the artist.