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. 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. Painted in 2011-2012 Provenance. 1969) Carnival and Lent signed and dated ‘Cecily Brown 2006-2008’ (on the reverse) oil on linen 97 x 103 in. Name that Tune (2012), Cecily Brown. Matisse: The Books – book review. ‘In a way, I’m glad it’s all past now, because it’s easier for people to look at the work in a more straightforward way. Help! Required fields are marked *, A decade after the uprisings that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the clocks he loved remain, The region is full of important sites that have not yet been fully recorded or studied, The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future, On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India dismissed objections to the construction of a new parliament complex in New Delhi. It feels very illustrative. That’s usually the first thing I say about them. 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. Photo: Rob McKeever; © Cecily Brown. ‘That’s just who I was, and I thought it was fun to embrace the attention. Matisse: The Books – book review. Jason Rosenfeld interviews painter Cecily Brown on the occasion of her recent exhibition A Day! The earliest ones in the exhibition date from 2005. And some that maybe I like just for myself. Cecily Brown. I couldn’t believe how much art there was everywhere’ (C. Brown quoted in R. Wetzler, ‘“Now I can steal from myself as much as from other artists” – an interview with Cecily Brown’, Apollo, 3 November 2018). Untitled (2018), Cecily Brown. 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. 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. 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. 240-243 (illustrated in color). 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. ‘I think they’re the children of Gilbert and George and Bacon in a way that I feel I am as well. As the child of somewhat bohemian parents, she grew up immersed in the arts. Installation view of Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, 2020. ‘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. I don't know why sometimes I pick one medium over another, or one size of canvas over another. 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