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A Living Record ( Her Arrival Was Once Steps Taken )

A Living Record ( Her Arrival Was Once Steps Taken )

April 20-May 26, 2023

Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Theresa Chromati: A Living Record ( Her Arrival Was Once Steps Taken ), the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in San Francisco, running from April 20 to May 26, 2023. On view will be the American debut of one of her inventive bronze scrotum flower sculptures, A Life to be Lived within this Deep Breath ( I am with You as We Take This Step forward ) (2023). The exhibition will also include a suite of new, ambitious paintings in the artist’s signature abstract figurative style. These paintings continue to extrapolate from the source of Chromati’s “central figure”, a conceptual feminine spirit that inhabits each of her paintings in differing compositions and arrangements.

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Theresa Chromati
Full Arrival - ( I Know You be Wondering How She Stand like THAT ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk velvet soft sculpture on canvas
84 x 144 inches / 213.4 x 365.8 cm
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"Full Arrival - ( I Know You be Wondering How She Stand like THAT ), 2023"
Inscribed with various meditative phrases, Chromati’s bronze sculpture stands freely, transforming a flowering or phallic structure with black petals at the top, moving into a yellow stem and vibrant red at the base. A recurring motif throughout her body of work, her scrotum flower is a kinship network that symbolizes the union of energies and vibrations, balancing delicate, robust, masculine and feminine energies all at once. The artist conceives of these scrotum flowers populating her creative universe as guardians of care for the “central figure,” ushering her forward in her journey of self-discovery and contemplation that balance the tensions and forces that lie within.
Theresa Chromati
A Life to be Lived within this Deep Breath ( I am with You as We Take This Step forward ), 2023
Patinated bronze
84 x 58 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches / 213.4 x 148.6 x 108 cm
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"A Life to be Lived within this Deep Breath ( I am with You as We Take This Step forward ), 2023"
New acrylic paintings such as Take another Breath ( come what may ) (2023) show innumerable layers of paint and glitter that celebrate unbridled freedom of movement, fluidity and multiplicity. The presence of the artist’s hand expands upon the beauty of gesture without limitation, with teal and golden strokes that emerge, swirl and coalesce harmoniously against a crimson backdrop. All that is Allowed ( Steps that Continue ) (also 2023) has a similar command of color, with intricate linework and differing hues building off of one another, strengthening the flux of the “central figure.” Each of these works are given an added material dimension with soft silk velvet sculptures that protrude from the canvases, where Chromati places her paintings in dialogue with the phallic element of the bronze sculpture. This is the artist’s first time using silk velvet in these elements.
Theresa Chromati
Bust OPEN and Fill these Moments I made bare ( jump UP support ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk velvet soft sculpture on canvas
72 x 48 inches / 182.9 x 121.9 cm
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"Bust OPEN and Fill these Moments I made bare ( jump UP support ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
At First Sight ( When You Know Where to FEEL all Will appear and Thank You ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk soft sculpture on canvas
84 x 60 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 cm
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"At First Sight ( When You Know Where to FEEL all Will appear and Thank You ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
All that is Allowed ( Steps that Continue), 2023
Acrylic, glitter, and silk velvet soft sculpture on linen
84 x 60 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 cm
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"All that is Allowed ( Steps that Continue), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
Bust OPEN and Fill these Moments I made bare ( jump UP support ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk velvet soft sculpture on canvas
72 x 48 inches / 182.9 x 121.9 cm
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"Bust OPEN and Fill these Moments I made bare ( jump UP support ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
At First Sight ( When You Know Where to FEEL all Will appear and Thank You ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk soft sculpture on canvas
84 x 60 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 cm
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"At First Sight ( When You Know Where to FEEL all Will appear and Thank You ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
All that is Allowed ( Steps that Continue), 2023
Acrylic, glitter, and silk velvet soft sculpture on linen
84 x 60 inches / 213.4 x 152.4 cm
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"All that is Allowed ( Steps that Continue), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
To Usher and To Be Ushered ( Woman and Allowance ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter and silk soft sculpture on linen
60 x 60 inches / 152.4 x 152.4 cm
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"To Usher and To Be Ushered ( Woman and Allowance ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati
Take another Breath ( come what may ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter, and silk velvet soft sculpture on linen
60 x 60 inches / 152.4 x 152.4 cm
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"Take another Breath ( come what may ), 2023"
Similar to the powerful feminine forms in the work of Juanita McNeely and Leonor Fini, Chromati’s work lauds experimentation and pure artistic feeling that, at once, unifies qualities that are complex, fruitful, assured and dynamic. As if to convey the residues of a fluid body, always in motion, Chromati’s work marks conversations between a woman and her past, future, and present, or put more simply by the artist: “A record that she moves.”
Theresa Chromati
So Completely Yours when You Come as You are ( Choices choices Choices as to Where I Land ), 2023
Acrylic, glitter, silk and tweed soft sculpture on canvas
68 x 170 1/2 x 5 inches / 172.7 x 433.1 x 12.7 cm
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"So Completely Yours when You Come as You are ( Choices choices Choices as to Where I Land ), 2023"
Theresa Chromati (b. 1992, Baltimore, MD) has participated in various group exhibitions, including recent shows at the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Baltimore Museum of Art; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China; A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A- Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner and Performance Space New York; the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art; and The Extreme Present co-organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian. Her works belong to the collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Baltimore Museum of Art; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; The Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg Collection, Atherton, CA; and The Dean Collection, New York, NY.
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