About the Exhibit
Cecily Brown’s exhibit at Paula Cooper Gallery’s 26th street location is on view from October 15th until December 12th, 2020.
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Cecily Brown is known for creating abstractions of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings. While the subject matter of “fruit, objects, and dead game” isn’t reproducible to the eye, the rich color scheme is perfectly preserved.
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“Transcending classical notions of genre and narrative, she draws from a wide range of art-historical motifs and contemporary references, building her compositions with a panoply of impassioned brushstrokes and compressed depth of field.” (source)
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“Using art—and often art of the past—can be like a bridge to talk about difficult things in the present.” - Cecily Brown (source)
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“One of the main things I would like my work to do is to reveal itself slowly, continuously, and for you to never feel that you’re really finished looking at something” (source)
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“Grand in scale and richly referential, these kaleidoscopic works have established Brown as one of the most esteemed painters of her generation.” (source)
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“My favourite things are to paint movement, figures in motion, and then tension and violence, but excitement and colour.” - Cecily Brown (source)
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Brown’s work was no exception when it came to being limited by scale during the quarantine. During this time she created easel size works titled ‘Bedroom Paintings' (above).
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This exhibit coincides with Brown’s exhibit at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and the birthplace of Winston Churchill.
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Video of the Exhibit
To see a walkthrough of the exhibit, skip ahead to 13:28 in the video below
About the Artist - Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown is a British artist that lives and works in New York. She received her BA in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Art, London.
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“Cecily Brown is known for her visceral and exuberant depictions of the body, nature and historical subjects, teetering between figuration and abstraction in lushly fragmented mash-ups that tap deep into art history and popular culture.” (source)
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“I’m from a small town where my friends laughed at the idea that I could possibly be an artist. But, I’d been saying I wanted to be an artist all my life, so there was encouragement.” - Cecily Brown (source)
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“Her style displays the influence of a variety of painters, from Francisco de Goya, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, to Old Masters like Rubens and Poussin, yet her works also present a distinctly female viewpoint.” (source)
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Brown is represented by Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
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