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Ari Wolff + Chloë Bass


I get asked a lot, “is teaching your art practice, or is the larger project of engaging with the social practice community your art practice?” And the answer is no. Those are important things in my life and they are not my art practice. Not everything that's important to me needs to be my art practice.

A photograph of Ari, a white person standing and carefully holding the edge a white sheet with small, hand-drawn punctation marks printed on it. Ari wears a black mask with with one looking at the camera and one covered by the tapestry. She has gold hair pulled back and wears short black jean cut-off shorts and a black t-shirt. A brick wall and a chair on a light wood floor is behind her.
Photo by Grace Cuddy

Ari Wolff

She/Her

Artist | Educator

Website
Queens, NY

Ari Wolff is an NYC-based artist working in text, installation, photographic processes, pedagogy, and publication. Her work examines language as a visual material, states of (il)legibility, systems of learning, and sensory perception as a form of translation. In 2022, she founded Citation Needed, an intergenerational publishing initiative dedicated to the production of artist books by kids. In 2023, Wolff was a recipient of a Social Practice CUNY Fellowship and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at Collarworks, Plaxall Gallery, The Brick, Longwood Gallery, The Foundry, Glasshouse, Para//el, the New York Queer Zine Fair (NYQZF), and the East Village Zine Fair, among others. Her visual poems and writing have been published in literary journals and platforms including POETRY, Asemic Review, The Graphic Score Exchange, The Offing, PANK, and Hinchas de Poesia. Learn more at ariwolff.work.

A photo of Chloë, a mixed-race Black American, with her back to the camera. She is wearing black denim shorts and a blue denim jacket. Her black hair is up in a bun.  She is standing on the back of an open-air flatbed truck.  There are three large stone bench sculptures on the back of the truck as well, and Chloë is looking down at one of them. The background includes a glass apartment tower to the left, blue sky with wispy white clouds above, several small and leafy trees, and a sign in the background reading "Fort York National Historic Site."
Photo by Grace Pan, Memorial Galleries

Chloë Bass

She/Her

Artist

Website
Brooklyn, NY

Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with a focus on the individual (The Bureau of Self-Recognition, 2011–2013), followed by a study of pairs (The Book of Everyday Instruction, 2015–2017), and recently concluded an investigation at the scale of the immediate family (Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place, 2018–2024). She will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on Since feeling is first (2023–ongoing), a series of works examining intimacy at the scale of the courtroom and the law. In addition to her work as an artist, she is an associate professor at Queens College CUNY, and serves as the co-director of Social Practice CUNY (along with Gregory Sholette). You can learn more about her at chloebass.com.