GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Installation view of Chelsea Culprit’s new exhibition, “DMing Purgatory,” from 2018. Via Chelsea Culprit and Queer Thoughts, New York

The subject of the dynamic work of this Mexico City-based American artist is the body, specifically the art-historical baggage of the female nude and the costumes and contortions of strippers. Two raucously colored, wall-spanning paintings on paper repeat the motif of a bent figure grasping platform boots, rendered in a manner that calls to mind a seated Matisse. On adjacent walls, the wings of a pair of fabric-upholstered butterfly shapes are accessorized with a yellow belt and a fan of delicate chains—Matisse’s iconic cutouts updated to reflect women’s work, whether at the sewing machine or onstage at the club.