ANOTHER CREEP:

Caroline Wells Chandler’s brightly colored hand-crocheted works explore notions of queerness and sexuality as well as the art historical canon. His characters are radically queer, and his representations of gender declare queerness as the normative state. Chandler 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: Roberto Paradise (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Lord Ludd (PA), Art League Houston (TX), Zurcher Studio (NY), Field Projects (NY), Vox Populi (PA), Sanctuary (PA), N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (MI), Open Gallery (TN), 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.

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I was taught how to crochet while attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX by my professor Rebecca Carter who was a newly minted graduate from the Fiber and Material studies program at SAIC.

I ignored the majority of my professor's advice to go straight to New York because I wanted time and space for the work to grow so I moved to Tyler, TX where my mother's family is still rooted.

Most recently at Danese Corey in a group show titled Common Threads curated by Brent Auxier I have an installation in the back room. I call it the RYG Room. I was working on this piece that I thought I might title Genital Mask but that felt too pretentious and it didn't interest me calling it that so I looked at the drawing again and I knew exactly what that piece needed to make it interesting

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