Cecily Brown
(British, born 1969)
Biography
Cecily Brown is a contemporary British painter. Exploring sexual imagery and an Abstract Expressionist gestural style, Brown’s work has emerged some of the most influential of her generation. Her large-scale canvases often feature figures engaging in sexual acts under a veil of color, as seen in Sweetie (2001), which shows a semi-abstracted couple captured mid-coitus and rendered in bright pinks and purples. Brown was born in London, England in 1969 and studied at the Slade School of Art, becoming influenced by the work of early Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. Distancing herself from the emerging Young British Artist scene, Brown moved to New York, NY in 1994 where she quickly gained attention for her paintings. In 2000, she was featured in a photo spread published by New Yorker magazine, and later that same year, The New York Times grouped Brown into a movement of leading contemporary female artists that included Sue Williams and Lisa Yuskavage. Brown was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston in 2006, and a solo show at Gagosian Gallery in London in 2013. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Cecily Brown
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.jpg "Cecily Brown Paintings at Modern Art Oxford..., 2005")
.jpg "Untitled (CB1243A), 2011")
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