Chelsea Culprit
RIGHT TO REMAIN ELEGANT
Por primera vez desde su inauguración, Galería La Esperanza cambia y expande su locación física al Cabaret Barba Azul en la Colonia Obrera, Ciudad de México. Nacido en una época dorada en la que éstos cabarets, y sus hoteles, cubrían las calles de la Obrera, éste entorno emblemático e histórico, ahora se transforma de nuevo mientras Culprit interviene la pista de baile localizada en la terraza superior.
El trabajo de Culprit frecuentemente defiende el cuerpo a un costado de un empoderado protagonismo femenino. Echando un ojo hacia la historia de una cultura de baile financiado, su trabajo es un derramamiento rebelde de energía material. Formas lustrosas y flotantes favorecen los contornos de lienzos que cortan, atrayendo seductoramente al espectador a una actuación donde la estrategia es la clave. Historias personales de geishas, cortesanas, y danzantes reflejan y refractan, su espejismo, subjetividad descarada revelada por un duplicado. Para Culprit, escultura y performance están entrelazados, audazmente fusionándose en una cara desafiante, donde la pintura se derrama en escultura y vice versa. Infundido con infinidad de sutilezas, el campo, el neón y el alto brillo emergen en un juego material vívido.
*Agradecemos, especialmente, el apoyo de Alejandro Moreno del Barba Azul, Yautepec Gallery y Hugo Montoya.
For the first time since its inauguration, Galería La Esperanza now shifts and expands its physical location to the Cabaret Barba Azul in Colonia Obrera, Mexico City. Born during a golden age when such cabarets, and their hotels, lined the streets of Obrera, this emblematic and historic cabaret of a secondary category, now transforms again as Culprit intervenes within the upper dance floor terrace.
Culprit’s work has frequently championed the body alongside an empowered female protagonism. Casting an eye towards the history of a financed dance culture, her work is a rebellious outpouring of material energy. Luscious, buoyant forms grace the contours of canvases that cut, seductively beckoning towards the viewer in a performance where strategy is key. Personal histories of geishas, courtesans, and dancers reflect and refract, their mirrored, cheeky subjectivity revealed by a candid doubling. For Culprit, sculpture and performance are intertwined, boldly merging in a defiant face forward push, whereby painting spills into sculpture and vice versa. Infused with myriad subtleties, camp, neon and high-gloss emerge into vivid material play.
*This exhibition is carried out with special thanks to Alejandro Moreno of Barba Azul, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City and Hugo Montoya.
Photos
Works
Geisha Reign
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Acrylic on plastic, metal grommets and chain
Dimensions: 240 x 140 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Caballeros
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil, gouache and pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 50 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
I´ll know in an hour
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil, acrylic, aluminum paint, dental plaster, gold llame, plastic jewelry and zipper
Dimensions: 220 x 172 x 7 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Big Girl Pants
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Barba Azul
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Neon, chain and acrylic
Dimensions: 120 x 45 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Barbra Azul
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Acrylic on plastic, metal grommets and chain
Dimensions: 240 x 180 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Solita Verde
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Acrylic on plastic, metal grommets and chain
Dimensions: 230 x 180 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Gatekeeper
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Acrylic on plastic, metal grommets and chain
Dimensions: 240 x 180 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Geisha Reign
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Acrylic on plastic, metal grommets and chain
Dimensions: 240 x 140 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Silver Shoes
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil stick & enamel on canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 230 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Big feet eats the little fish
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Gettin Ready
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Oil stick, gouache and pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 50 cm
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Diablita
Artist: Chelsea Culprit
Year: 2017
Technique: Neon, paint and metal chain
Photo credit: PJ Rountree
Archivo:
- José Eduardo Barajas, house painting tips (jerusalem) (01.12.2018 – 06.01.2019)
- Chavis Mármol, Mordido por un perro rabioso (20.09.2018 – 03.11.2018)
- Carlos Martínez, como mi boca que ha quemado el cielo (04.08.2018 – 02.09.2018)
- Liz Mevill, Ser artista es igual a ser una secretaria (13.04.2018 – 25.05.2018)
- Santiago Marín, Sobre las cosas resplandecientes (09.12.2017 – 20.01.2018)
- Bruno Darío, ¿HACIA DÓNDE MIRA EL PRINCIPIO DEL MAR? (28.10.2017 – 25.11.2017)
- Marti Guerrero, Tim Comix (05.10.2017 – 21.10.2017)
- Chelsea Culprit, RIGHT TO REMAIN ELEGANT (26.05.2017 – 03.06.2017)
- Diego Salvador Rios, अव (04.04.2017 – 29.04.2017)
- Bill Hayden & Sam Pulitzer, Lixxxtapussy Walls 2k13 (07.02.2017 – 11.03.2017)
- Txema Novelo, ESM (Earth Sun Moon) (14.01.2017 – 28.01.2017)
- Sergio Heredia, Pedacería (17.12.2016 – 12.01.2017)
- Jessica Williams, Realm of the Real (17.11.2016 – 14.12.2016)
- preteen gallery, TOUCHING HANDS WITH SOMEONE SERIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL (23.09.2016 – 29.10.2016)
- PJ Rountree, Terms, 2009-2016 (04.07.2016 – 10.09.2016)