Can historic houses tell more stories than they have done? BOOKS; SHORT STORIES // CONTACT; Select Page. Madrepora (Shipwreck) (2016) alludes to the trope of classical bathers, with a woman’s curving back silhouetted in bright white, set against a turbulent field of coloured strokes. 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. Exhibited. And at the same time the big ones were becoming very loose and open. Cecily Brown draws inspiration from sources as diverse as Goya, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, and her paintings combine aspects of both figuration and abstraction. CB: This is one of those really frustrating ones because I liked it too early on, which is always a bit of a trap. The rhetoric that has traditionally been applied to reinforce concepts of both a feminine style of painting and feminine subject matter, while not completely absent from critiques of Brown's vigorous, unrelenting style and unapologetic themes, stands out as ridiculousl… When you walk into a gallery and see a big painting, it’s sort of overwhelming. Help! New York, NY 10021-0043, USA, About 1969) is a British painter. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Her engagement with the academic tradition – though always a pronounced influence on her work – has become more evident in recent paintings: over the past several years, she has primarily focused on ensembles of figures, in dialogue with artists like Hogarth, Degas, and Delacroix. ‘So much of the pressure is “what to paint,” but because I had 20 years of subjects to choose from it flowed’ – and decided to repeat the process in monotypes, working with her longtime printer, Two Palms. There was a middle period when they were becoming just so overworked. Born in London in 1969 and raised in Surrey, Brown grew up in a milieu of British artists and intellectuals: she is the daughter of the novelist Shena Mackay and the art critic David Sylvester, an early champion of Francis Bacon. R. Dergan, ed., Cecily Brown, New York, 2008, pp. ‘Franz Kline said “oil paint never behaves the same way twice” and it’s true’, observes Brown (C. Brown, quoted in ‘Interview: Silvia Köpf in Dialogue with Cecily Brown’, in Cecily Brown, exh. AB: The book includes a few more paintings than in the exhibition. I don't know why sometimes I pick one medium over another, or one size of canvas over another. Painted in 2011-2012 Provenance. All rights reserved. ‘For me, seeing a group of works together in a show is like the final part of the whole process of making paintings: seeing how they relate, what story they tell, and what they mean once they’re in the world. What makes you shift from wanting to make an oil canvas to producing a work on paper? And some that maybe I like just for myself. Another Day! SoHo was still very alive with galleries, and there was loads of good art, stuff that I hadn’t seen before, like Koons, Richard Prince, and Mike Kelley. Cecily Brown makes paintings that give the appearance of being in continual flux, alive with the erotic energy of her expressive application and vivid color, shifting restlessly between abstract and figurative modes. 1969) Carnival and Lent signed and dated ‘Cecily Brown 2006-2008’ (on the reverse) oil on linen 97 x 103 in. Cecily Brown. Cecily Brown. ), Figures in a Landscape I (2001), Cecily Brown. Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’ Dana Schutz: Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly. Her impact on younger artists is more and more evident on gallery walls. It was actually copied from a motif in Picasso’sRape of the Sabines, so it almost couldn’t really go wrong because of this solid composition. CB: It is a quieter process, definitely. Literature. Simultaneously channelling the Old Masters and Abstract Expressionism, her paintings combine rigorous compositional structure with a sense of intuitive intensity. Brown lives and works in New York City. Matisse: The Books – book review. Cecily Brown’s 5.36 sq metre work The Triumph of Death on display at Blenheim Palace. Help! Part of my whole thing is to discover it as I go along. Cecily Brown discusses her early influences, the art historical imagery in which she continually finds inspiration, and her latest body of work in this video filmed in her New York studio and produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Cecily Brown. From the October 2018 issue of Apollo. Another Day! I couldn’t believe how much art there was everywhere.’, Untitled (1997), Cecily Brown. (170 x 165.3cm.) We met the British painter at her New York studio for a talk about borrowing imagery from other artists, and how she has always responded to dark, scary art. (She didn’t learn of her real paternity until she was 21, previously believing Sylvester to be merely a close family friend.) Photo: Tom Lindboe. That encouragement was well placed. AB: What are you currently working on? To me, the surface is incredibly important. Your email address will not be published. Help! But it is about finding that balance. Thu 17 … Ayako Suwa: Taste of Reminiscence, Delicacies from Nature. Alexandre da Cunha – interview: ‘All my work is about combining things and making them have a conversation, or sometimes an argument’ Danh Vo: Chicxulub. While their compositions and motifs are similar to those in her paintings, the monotypes require Brown to work more quickly, giving them a loose, spontaneous quality: in one example, recalling her earlier paintings of couples in a landscape, two recumbent figures embrace, rendered as a series of fluid, wavy lines against a ground of bright green. Paintings such as Jicky (2009–10) and Handsome Stranger (2010) are up against the edge of abstraction, anchored by flashes of a defined limb woven among loose, swooping ribbons of paint. (en.louisiana.dk). A limited-edition book of the same name, published by Karma, which features an evocative short story by Lewis, along with illustrations of Brown's paintings, accompanies the exhibition. R. Dergan, ed., Cecily Brown, New York, 2008, pp. Brown's vigorous and tactile oil paintings evoke the breadth of human experience, particularly the emotions associated with touch, pleasure, and passion. ‘I hadn’t looked at my Hogarth drawings for many years, and when I went back to look at them in preparation [for the Drawing Center show], I was struck by how completely I’ve ripped off Hogarth’s compositions over and over.’ The influences are not, however, exclusively art historical: a group of works from 2013 was based on the cover of Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 album Electric Ladyland, which featured a harem-like photograph of 19 young nude women lounging on the ground, holding copies of his records. Cecily Brown knows that desire lies in the flirtation: amid her fervent gestural abstraction, just the glimpse of suggestion is enough. AB: I know that you frequently use work by other artists as your source. So, whatever you see in the small works, there was probably something very similar going on in the big ones of the same years. ‘It’s funny looking in retrospect, because I felt very guileless at the time,’ Brown says. Cecily Brown is considered a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the century. She gives the example of Degas’s Young Spartans Exercising (1860), the subject of a suite of drawings included in the Drawing Center show. In the massive triptych, Photo: Brandon Israels & Doug Volle; © Cecily Brown. Photo: Tom Lindboe. Brown studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before relocating to New York at the age of 25 in order to distance herself from the Young British Artists and their focus on new media. (2016) – designed, at 33 feet long, to immerse the viewer – she draws on the tumultuous intensity of Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) to depict the chaotic aftermath of a shipwreck, with a mass of nearly abstract figures pressed up against the surface of the picture plane. One aspect of the Louisiana show Brown is particularly excited about, she tells me, is a series of new monotypes in which she has revisited her own past work, almost like ‘a mini retrospective in monotypes’ within the larger exhibition. Could Sex and the City’s Charlotte hack it in today’s art world? Preview and subscribe here. Is this large canvas on the wall a work in progress? ‘If I’d shown somewhere else down the street in SoHo, it could have gone completely unnoticed, and I’d just be another oil painter who liked Old Masters.’ The spotlight intensified when she left Deitch for the powerhouse Gagosian Gallery in 1999, at the age of 29. 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That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’, Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba Rises Again – and Again and Again, Heather Phillipson – interview: ‘I wanted to respond to the loaded political position of Trafalgar Square’, Cecily Brown CB: I’m really invested in what things look like up-close. In the studio it can be hard to really see things because there’s so much going on at once. Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. She spent six months in New York as an exchange student in 1992 and returned permanently in 1994 after graduating from the Slade. But looking back you can see how it could seem like too much – the fashion side of it mixed with the sexy paintings.’ Nevertheless, the obsessive focus on her physical appearance was tinged with a sexist double standard: as she points out, any number of male artists, including Jasper Johns and Brice Marden, posed for frivolous photo shoots in fashion magazines like Vogue without anyone questioning their seriousness. In spite of the summer heat, the studio is busy with activity. Photo: Genevieve Hanson; © Cecily Brown. Whereas painting and monotypes are more like putting information out there that’s already been digested.’ When she begins exploring a new subject in her paintings, she’ll often spend a week making monotypes first: ‘They help you get to the heart of the matter more quickly,’ she explains. 240-243 (illustrated in color). You don’t get as caught up in the material aspect because they’re fast and you can’t pile the paint on.’, Preparing for the Louisiana exhibition has given Brown the opportunity to look back at her own oeuvre and distil the major themes and concerns that have returned again and again throughout the past 20 years: the depiction of the body, the long tradition of figurative painting, the visceral pleasure of manipulating paint. (246.4 x 261.6 cm.) In works such as Name That Tune (2012), she depicts crowds of nude women, their bodies mostly rendered as blurred passages of peach and brown. Nov 22, 2017 - Explore Tim Dayhuff Visual Research's board "Cecily Brown", followed by 3020 people on Pinterest. Instead, like countless aspiring artists before her, Brown left London for edgy, make-it-or-break-it New York City. I think it’s probably just instinctive most of the time. In an interview for Louisiana Magazine, Cecily Brown underlined the importance of a stone she found on the beach at Louisiana and press photos from ongoing global conflicts for the process. 64 & 74 (illustrated in colour, p. 65). ‘I often think of them not as studies for the paintings, but as studies while I’m working on paintings. Name that Tune (2012), Cecily Brown. We met the British painter at her New York studio for a talk about borrowing imagery from other artists, and how she has always responded to dark, scary art. Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’ Dana Schutz: Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly. In a way, these works are closer to my drawings and watercolours. Exhibited. In fact, that’s absolutely not the point. So sometimes, because the day ended, the canvas was still wet when I left the studio. This is something that feels very much for myself, for my own research. As the child of somewhat bohemian parents, she grew up immersed in the arts. 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Alexandre da Cunha – interview: ‘All my work is about combining things and making them have a conversation, or sometimes an argument’ Danh Vo: Chicxulub. Jason Rosenfeld interviews painter Cecily Brown on the occasion of her recent exhibition A Day! It just sounded like such a great idea to me. Cecily Brown - Untitled (CB 1350). Cecily Brown makes paintings that give the appearance of being in continual flux, alive with the erotic energy of her expressive application and vivid color, shifting restlessly between abstract and figurative modes. Cecily Brown, Armorial Memento, Floored, 2020, installation view at Blenheim Palace. I don’t have to walk around the canvas or stoop over it. Exhibited. The Blenheim show is a critical smash—though tantalizingly inaccessible as Britain locks down again. “I want visitors,” said Brown in an interview conducted for the exhibition, “to do a double-take, to think for the a second that my work belongs there, but then to see that it’s a slightly distorted vision of the world depicted around them.” Cecily Brown, Armorial Memorial, 2019. Copyright © 1893–2021 Studio International Foundation. Though the nude body still features prominently in Brown’s work, her paintings became less explicitly sexual over the years, relying on a more latent eroticism in place of overt depictions of sexual activity. ‘I think they’re the children of Gilbert and George and Bacon in a way that I feel I am as well. Cecily Brown, Hunt After Frans Snyders, 2019, Oil on Linen, 61 x 71 inches, Courtesy of the Artist Photograph: Sutton Comms. Unlike the large-scale landscapes that have formed the centre of her practice over the last 20 years, these works are diminutive in comparison, not measuring much more than 12in (30cm) on each side, and are being displayed for the first time. For instance, in the book’s interview with Courtney J. Martin, chief curator of the Dia Art Foundation, Brown says, “I’m from a small town where my friends laughed at the idea that I could possibly be an artist. “Someone once described my work as looking like someone had thrown a hand grenade into a Versace store,” the painter Cecily Brown tells Michael Frahm, director of the Blenheim Art Foundation, in an interview published to promote her new exhibition at the country house. Share on Facebook; Share on … ‘Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often and with Whom’ is at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, from 8 November–10 March 2019 See more ideas about Brown painting, Painting, Art painting. By the end of the decade, the bunnies had been replaced by human bodies: in works like Figures in a Landscape 1 (2001), Brown arranged overlapping, mid-coital nudes into expressive all-over compositions that obliterated the distinction between figure and ground, placing tangles of flesh-coloured strokes against loosely pastoral backdrops of verdant green. AB: Would you describe these works as preparatory? Cecily Brown’s studio – an airy, light-filled loft overlooking the bustle of New York’s Union Square – is, at any given moment, home to as many as 50 works in various stages of completion. Cecily Brown. I’d sit down with one and wouldn’t get up for six hours. “Someone once described my work as looking like someone had thrown a hand grenade into a Versace store,” the painter Cecily Brown tells Michael Frahm, director of the Blenheim Art Foundation, in an interview published to promote her new exhibition at the country house. But, I’d been saying I wanted to be an artist all my life, so there was encouragement.” Cecily Brown, New York, 2020. ‘I feel like Anders is telling a very full story. In her current exhibition at Maccarone, New York, Cecily Brown presents a selection of her paintings made during the course of the past decade. ‎In episode 45 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the greatest painters to ever live, the inimitable CECILY BROWN!!!!! Every centimetre is teeming with energy and yet it is very contained. It was very obsessive. Vienna, Essl Museum, Cecily Brown, 2012, pp. I think it distracted people for a really long time.’. Provenance. Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’ Dana Schutz: Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly. Still from “Cecily Brown: Take No Prisoners” From the Quarterly. I never stop examining. The human form is an essential part of both artists’ work, it becomes not just the focus of their paintings, but it also becomes a symbol of change. Photo: Rob McKeever; © Cecily Brown. © Cecily Brown. Though drawing has always played a crucial role in her process, Brown had never shown them in large numbers until an exhibition in 2016 at the Drawing Center in New York, which subsequently travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. One of the hardest things about leaving the studio is when you’re still working, and then the frustration of knowing that you can’t really change it the next day. And with these, it’s more mental and less physical. Brown is currently preparing for a survey of her work at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, which will open in November – the latest in a series of solo exhibitions at the museum devoted to contemporary painters. When I first started working this small, a lot of people asked if they were studies for the larger ones. The excitement of doing a show like this is that I get to see what I’ve been doing for the past 20 years,’ she says. Cecily Brown (b. January 2021. Brown’s approach to painting is similarly non-linear: often she works in groups, starting several new canvases at a time so she can experiment with different possibilities for a given composition or motif while maintaining a sense of freshness and spontaneity. The exhibition includes 29 works. It feels very illustrative. Cecily Brown (b. The plans, announced…, The French parliament has finalised the restitution of 26 artefacts to the Republic of Benin and one to Senegal. Cecily Brown was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in her studio in New York City in November 2014. Photo: Nina Subin. Cecily Brown's emergence as a female artist capable of challenging the gendered status quo not only of the art world but of what many regard as the hyper-masculinity of the Abstract Expressionist movement is perhaps her most lasting contribution. “I want visitors,” said Brown in an interview conducted for the exhibition, “to do a double-take, to think for the a second that my work belongs there, but then to see that it’s a slightly distorted vision of the world depicted around them.” Cecily Brown, Armorial Memorial, 2019. Therefore, when Jim suggested that I have a show of just my small paintings, I immediately thought that he should write about the works. at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. AB: Do you think your paintings are contained? So maybe in total there were around 45. Brown’s major break came not long after her arrival in New York: in 1997, she had a solo show at Deitch Projects, ‘Spectacle,’ which featured a series of luridly coloured paintings of rabbits engaged in absurd, graphic orgies. Cecily Brown’s first New York show in three years is a remarkable expansion of over a quarter century of work. • Cecily Brown, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK, until 3 January 2021 Appeared in The Art Newspaper , 327 October 2020 More Interview Topics Print Cecily Brown Painting Contemporary art Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn; Email; Current Issue. Once I’d read Jim’s story, I was able to think about how we would place the paintings in the book. CB: Absolutely. In September, the artist will be showing new works at Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, and next year will have her debut exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery, London. But, I’d been saying I wanted to be an artist all my life, so there was encouragement.” Cecily Brown, New York, 2020. There was something really satisfying about the early composition. Her energetic brushwork and sensual use of paint have earned her comparison to Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. Provenance. CB: For this one I was working from an image that was three inches square, which I’d ripped out of a newspaper. Cecily Brown: I’ve been painting these smaller works for a long time. In addition to her paintings, the Louisiana exhibition will include a selection of drawings and prints, aspects of her work that have tended to receive less attention. CB: These little pastel studies were done maybe a year ago now. But you also have to step outside of the work. Courtesy: the artist and Blenheim Art Foundation; photograph: Tom Lindboe. In the news. CB: In a way you can see things more clearly when they’re small. Originally, she and Kold had planned to include a selection of existing monotypes she has been making alongside her paintings since the 1990s, but had difficulty tracking down many of the ones they wanted. Brown tells me that Anders Kold, the show’s curator, has just sent her the final checklist, which includes works that span her career, from the late 1990s to the present. For Interview, she posed for David LaChapelle in a miniskirt and bikini top next to a massive canvas from her 1999 series Boy Trouble, depicting a masturbating male nude against a ground of shocking pink. CB: Well, Michele Maccarone and I have been friends with Jim for some time, and he had this idea to do a small paintings show at Michelle’s gallery. She studied at Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1990s, but as a figurative painter she felt out of step with the London art scene, where the conceptually driven work of the YBAs was on the rise and painting was viewed with suspicion, if not outright scorn. Cecily Brown is a London-born contemporary artist based in New York City, who combines figuration with abstraction to explore themes of sexuality, pornography and attraction. So maybe in total there were around 45. INTERVIEW DIRECTORY // PODCAST // PUBLICATIONS. It’s like squinting at something. That encouragement was well placed. AB: Surface must be one of the most difficult elements to control, when you are working with paint, given that it could dry before you’ve finished working on it. WE DIDN’T MEAN TO GO TO SEA. As with the academicians of the past, she sees drawing as a means of building up a painterly vocabulary: ‘That’s why you copy one thing rather than another,’ she tells me. 240-243 (illustrated in color). It’s about catching the moment when it’s a little too overwrought. The Brooklyn Museum just acquired via gift Triumph of the Vanities II (2018), one of two grand canvases that recently hung at the Metropolitan Opera. Matisse: The Books – book review. Installation video of: "CECILY BROWN" September 20 - October 25, 2008 Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street, New York Video shot by Trebuchet Interactive www.trebuchetweb.com If you … She had recently begun a group of small paintings in which she reinterpreted her own past work – ‘It was incredibly liberating and fun,’ she says. I don’t want to have it figured out too early on. I hate it when you love a painting, and when you go and look at it closely the surface is really disappointing. Unlike the art world in London, which she saw as ‘very closed and not particularly friendly’, Brown felt immediately at home in New York: ‘You could just wander into an opening and people would actually talk to you. Share. This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. But, partly because of the small nature of them, because they’re so easy to store and keep, I actually didn’t have as many as I had thought. Studio. Brown studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before relocating to New York at the age of 25 in order to distance herself from the Young British Artists and their focus on new media. Installation view of Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, 2020. Today, I’ve just worked on it and I’m now going to be able to move on because I’ve disrupted it enough. The point of this exhibition is to show a body of work that has been going on for 10 years, side by side with the larger canvases. Ayako Suwa: Taste of Reminiscence, Delicacies from Nature. I wanted to do a book instead of a catalogue, so Jim decided he would write a short story. ‘Subjectwise, I’ve always thought I have a lot in common with [the YBAs],’ she says. And I always find it very hard at the end of a day of painting to be able to see what I was doing that day, because you’re so close to it. Mark Brown Arts correspondent. Reflecting on the changes implicit in this difference in canvas size, the writer Jim Lewis, who curated the exhibition, considered these works as “gardens”. You don’t have the grandeur, and the automatically impressive thing of the big painting. ‘The nice thing about getting older as an artist is that you have your own work to draw on,’ Brown says. Her energetic brushwork and sensual use of paint have earned her comparison to Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. the Studio International Foundation, PO Box 1545, Originally scheduled to open in April 2020, “Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace” presents more than 30 site-specific, never-before-seen works that mark an epic series of firsts for both the estate and the artist. Cecily Brown photographed in her studio in New York in July 2018. 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