Candace Hunter
— Candace Hunter —
A highly respected artist in the Midwest, chlee has most recently received the Tim and Helen Meier Family Foundation Award, the 3 Arts Award and honored by the Diaspora! Rhythms Collective. In 2020, she served as a juror for the Kentucky Foundation for Women and was asked to speak at the Midwest Women in Ecology Conference.
Candace Hunter (chlee), a Chicago based artist, creates collage, paintings, installations and performance art. Plainly, she tells stories. Through the use of appropriated materials from magazines, vintage maps, cloth, various re-used materials, she offers this new landscape of materials back to the viewer with a glimpse of history and admiration of the beautiful.
During the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, she began to do two things, offer free art classes on lnstagram and to create what she now calls her "Brown Limbed Girls" - a growing series of whimsical brown girls enjoying their lives. She is extremely happy to share the girls with a new audience on the West Coast.
— From the collection “Brown Limbed Girls” —
