Metal supports—structures with the hard-line industrial feel of a factory farm’s machinery—fill the space in “DOOM BLOOM,” Theresa Chromati’s show with Dallas’s Tureen gallery this winter.
Their severe edges are softened by the florid tenderness of the prismatic canvases they buttress—and by the fantastical botanical sculptures (so-called scrotum flowers) that wrap around them like vines. A recurring motif for Chromati, the scrotum flower is just one species in the elaborate mythological taxonomy of otherworldly beings that populate her work.
November 29, 2023
