Chelsea Culprit
Queer Thoughts presents an installation of new work by Chelsea Culprit, featuring a singular large-scale sculpture, and a suite of new paintings. The central element of the installation is a floor to ceiling sculpture of mirror-polished stainless steel, entitled Relaxed Pole. The minimalist sculpture references a pole-dancing pole used in strip clubs, but in this work the rigid verticality of the pole has relaxed into a curvilinear, reticulated form, making an expressive line drawing in space, and transfiguring the transactional utility of the monolithic power object.
A series of new paintings will encompass the walls of the booth using the artist鈥檚 rigorous abstraction of bodily forms to elaborate the theatricality of the body鈥檚 capacity for work, play and expression. Through processes of abstraction and material experimentation, Culprit's canvases explore the visual-cognitive mechanisms of the mind鈥檚 eye. Culprit displaces the centrality of the image in favor of complex visual surfaces for play and discovery, engaging the eye in constellations of expressive meaning, myth-making and language. Culprit鈥檚 work continues its explorations of gender, labor, and desire, but does so while playing with degrees of legibility, genre, and cognition.
Moving freely between the pictorial imagery of folk art and the materiality of the real world, Culprit鈥檚 works are composed of feelings as much as descriptions. Recurrent signifiers of the dancer鈥揾igh heeled feet and platform shoes, claw-like embellished nails, and bikini bottoms鈥揷ontinue to populate Culprit鈥檚 canvases and act as an artistic signature within an unbounded field of aesthetic exploration.
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Queer Thoughts presents an installation of new work by Chelsea Culprit, featuring a singular large-scale sculpture, and a suite of new paintings. The central element of the installation is a floor to ceiling sculpture of mirror-polished stainless steel, entitled Relaxed Pole. The minimalist sculpture references a pole-dancing pole used in strip clubs, but in this work the rigid verticality of the pole has relaxed into a curvilinear, reticulated form, making an expressive line drawing in space, and transfiguring the transactional utility of the monolithic power object.
A series of new paintings will encompass the walls of the booth using the artist鈥檚 rigorous abstraction of bodily forms to elaborate the theatricality of the body鈥檚 capacity for work, play and expression. Through processes of abstraction and material experimentation, Culprit's canvases explore the visual-cognitive mechanisms of the mind鈥檚 eye. Culprit displaces the centrality of the image in favor of complex visual surfaces for play and discovery, engaging the eye in constellations of expressive meaning, myth-making and language. Culprit鈥檚 work continues its explorations of gender, labor, and desire, but does so while playing with degrees of legibility, genre, and cognition.
Moving freely between the pictorial imagery of folk art and the materiality of the real world, Culprit鈥檚 works are composed of feelings as much as descriptions. Recurrent signifiers of the dancer鈥揾igh heeled feet and platform shoes, claw-like embellished nails, and bikini bottoms鈥揷ontinue to populate Culprit鈥檚 canvases and act as an artistic signature within an unbounded field of aesthetic exploration.
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