ARTIST BIO
Bree Chapin is a painter and visual artist based between New York City and Lisbon. Her expressive pantings—recognizable from vibrant color choices and provocative subjects—draw influence from city life, pop art, music, and an incurable curiosity about the dynamics of human experience. Her work dances between darker themes of existential anxiety and optimistic delirium.
From a young age, visual art was always Bree’s most natural form of expression. Creating had always been her driving force and she began sharing her work publicly in the Lower East Side art scene in the early 2010s.
Bree’s fine artwork has been exhibited regularly for over a decade in New York and beyond (exhibition list). In 2023 Bree moved her primary studio from East Harlem to Lisbon Portugal, and balances her time between these two vibrant capitals. Her originals are included in several private collections and permanently installed in public spaces around the world.
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Bree has also built a reputation as a creative and competent curator, organizer, and producer of art events (CV).
Thoughts
Some Have Asked… Why Pink?
My body of work from 2021-2024 is known for suggestive imagery and delirious all-pink palette. I had spent over 10 years creating art in an ever-brighter, more electric, and smaller range of hues. In 2021, I found myself hyper-focused on this single color, forsaking all others. Why pink? There are so many reasons… conscious and otherwise. Pink is at once loud and aggressive yet hazy and dreamy. It’s punk rock and strawberry shortcake. It’s “let’s be friends” and “fuck you.”
The more I used it, the more I wanted to use it. Vibrational reddish shadows and milky-pink highlights…I am increasingly compelled by the aesthetic, physical, and symbolic qualities of the color. People look at a splash of pink and form immediate opinions. There is a power in pink, a history. We lob so much baggage on this color—and it has never once cared what we think of it.