ABOUT ME


  • The ultimate school for discipline, ballet taught Chloe that art is not only fueled by creativity, but focus and study. Later, while attending Berklee in Boston, Chloe would regularly visit the MFA and reminisce in front of the many works of Degas held at the museum, thinking back to her fifteen years as a ballerina.

Creativity

While dedicating her life to performance art in church, school, and dance academy, Chloe was learning the important of storytelling and philosophy at home. With a mother who’s a long term fantasy/ sci-fi nerd and a father who’s a volunteer youth pastor, Chloe spent her free time picking apart the humanities. From The Lord of the Rings to the Book of Revelation, Star Trek to The Dead Sea Scrolls, drawing connections from fiction to the real world human experience became Chloe’s favorite pastime. This would follow her into high school when she would become an award winning essayist thanks to her teachers submitting her work to various competitions and scholarships. It would also inspire her to study Writing for TV and Scoring for Video Games at Berklee, some of her most precious memories involving her and her older siblings N64 and original XBOX.


  • A twentieth century take on a piece of classic imagery, St.Michael Slaying the Dragon is by far Chloe’s favorite piece housed at the MFA. With striking line work contrasted by almost airbrushed blends of colors, this piece always found a way to strike new ideas of iteration, homage, and style into Chloe’s own creative work.

Berklee…

After being raised low income and in what was, essentially, the middle of nowhere getting into the iconic Berklee College of Music felt like a miracle, let alone being able to attend. At Berklee, Chloe was surrounded by some of the greatest music students and professors with connections and knowledge she never thought she would be able to get. Fueled by this excellence around her, as well as the expectation of those she loved back home, she pushed herself to take on 2 minors and achieve Magna Cum Laude while also working as a Residential Assistant and Studio Operations Assistant.

  • Chloe first saw “The Evolution of Swing” her second year of Berklee, when she took a quick weekend trip to NYC. Having a rough time socially acclimating to such a prestigious institution, and then having the COVID-19 pandemic cutting her first year short, Chloe took this short trip as an opportunity to take a step back and recenter how she wanted to approach creativity. What better a piece to remind her of the purpose of art than Reymond Steth’s lithograph? Seeing this piece reminded Chloe that art is about humanity, it’s experiences, and how it copes with its unique condition.

…and Beyond

Graduating from Berklee in 2023, Chloe was able to land an audio production internship at a tech start up adjacent to the MIT Media Lab by the name of SOND. After working at the start up for close to six months, Chloe was offered a full time position. After moving to Los Angeles at the end of 2023, Chloe is now navigating how to find artistic fulfillment in all aspects of her life while still cultivating the career she been building since she was a tike. She enjoys perusing museums in any city she stumbles into, and still has a love for reading, video games, and analysis.

Performance

Growing up in the small lake town of Meredith, New Hampshire, Chloe Lael would be introduced to the art of performance through two separate channels. First when her parents, like all French Canadian families, enrolled her in dance classes at three years old, and then another three years later when she would start singing in the Youth Worship Team at her church. She would hold onto both of these until moving for college, on top of doing every performance opportunity her small town high school had to offer, and picking up two more instruments in the form of alto saxophone and electric bass.


  • A collection of objects and ideas strewn across a work surface, Vanitas Still Life isn’t just indicative of how Chloe’s desk (or brain, for that matter) looks on any given day. This piece embodies how Chloe felt as she was thrust into the music industry post-grad; desperately trying to re-unite with elements of her background in order to sculpt a career that felt fulfilling.