Chloe van der Vlugt (b. 2000) was born and raised in Miami, FL, and moved back after completing her bachelor’s degree at The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She graduated with a second major in Mathematics and a minor in Dance, art forms which she continues to practice and influence her worldview and approach to visual art, specifically in the interpretation of the concept of abstraction as well as embodiment and movement. Chloe views painting as a dance that leaves visual marks. Verbal thinking is cast aside as the language of bodily movement and color come to the mind’s forefront. In her recent work, her obsessive fascination and affinity for the square, both as a shape and as a concept, is evident. A square is the most simple shape to tesselate, which is why pixels are squares. Squares are also highly useful in mathematics and therefore ubiquitous in the field. The shape serves her practice as a vessel for abstraction. Film theorists who are particularly concerned with the human body influence the way Chloe conceptualizes her work, from Bergson and Merleau Ponty to more contemporary ones such as Laura Marks and Vivian Sobchack. Her work often employs gouache and acrylic painting, collage, and photography.