“I’m a magpie,” Chelsea Culprit reflects in an interview with Art Basel. “I’ll keep scraps and fragments of material I touched years ago if they were beautiful and made me feel a certain way.” Born in 1984, Culprit grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, and drew inspiration from the local quilt museum, the annual quilt festival, and her parents’ artist friends. A move to Chicago as a young adult brought its own inspirations: postindustrial structures and old warehouses. Culprit now splits her time between Mexico City and the Catskill Mountains, where she has converted an abandoned firehouse into a studio. Her latest paintings, at Mariposa Gallery, combine folk art imagery with the materiality of contemporary life, using neon light and such things as doilies, tablecloths, and canvases. This is her first exhibition in Paris since the Palais de Tokyo, in 2019. —Clara Molot