Cecily Brown - Softcover

Cecily Brown; Jan Tumlir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880154900 ISBN 13: 9781880154908

Publisher: Gagosian Gallery, 2003

Synopsis

Known for her lush surfaces, vivid color, and energetic brushwork, Cecily Brown inhabits her torrid, atmospheric paintings with life forms that swim amongst swells of color and gesture. Often cast in sensual situations, her figures advance and recede into painterly abstraction. With her various references to art history-- from the seventeenth-century French Classicism of Nicolas Poussin to the Baroque flamboyance of Peter Paul Rubens and the living gestures of Willem de Kooning, among other Abstract Expressionists--Brown reinvigorates twenty-first-century painting. Working alongside the traditions of the medium, and borrowing freely from them, Brown absorbs formerly male-dominated approaches to painting, unapologetically infusing a feminine viewpoint. This publication, which accompanies the first one-person museum survey of Brown's work in the United States, features three major new essays by Jeff Fleming, Linda Norden and Linda Nochlin, as well as a series of key color reproductions.

About this title

About the Author:

Cecily Brown was born in London and received her MFA from the Slade Scool of Art there. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world and is currently featured in the Greater New York show at the P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art. She currently lives and works in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gagosian Gallery
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1880154900
• ISBN 13: 9781880154908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 57