Charlotte Ghiorse

Charlotte Ghiorse aka the House of ChoCLeT.
Born in Albany, NY in 1965, Charlotte Ghiorse received her B.F.A in painting at the State University of New York at Albany in 1992. She was Dean's listed twice in her last year there. A year later in 1993 she was the recipient of the Annual Liquitex Excellence in Art Award.
Her mentor, Dennis Byng, a two-time Guggenheim winner himself, pushed her in the direction of First-Generation Abstract Expressionism. She resisted, preferring to paint portraits of buildings. Indeed, her early work reflects the need to hold a line while being
fully abstract. The buildings are divided in to bold, linear color scapes.
Ghiorse then sold a collection"”just one week after graduation"”of nine paintings to an investment banker (who eerily worked on the 90th floor of WTC tower 1) in NYC in 1993, becoming a part of the Ron Rodriguez collection. She then moved to NYC in 1994 where she has since shown yearly in galleries and alternative art spaces, mostly showing portraits of what she calls "post-modern cartoonism;" pictures of buildings and living spaces revealing a desire for a home. Text and highly detailed patterns of India ink, muted color washes, and "scratches" permeate this work.
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