While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the British-born, New York City–based painter, would suddenly slip away ...

I could argue that Cecily Brown has become a better painter. But really it’s the often mysterious expansion of my own taste that we’re talking about here. With luck, you learn to see more and ...

Originally from London, Brown has been living and working in New York since 1994. Much of her work has been taking on artistic tropes from art history that have become less popular among the ...

Cecily Brown’s art makes me feel like I’m trapped in a “Twilight Zone” episode, getting my ironic comeuppance. Everything I thought I loved in a painting—rich color, fleshy figuration ...

Cecily Brown during the press preview at the Barnes Foundation. Photo: Elisa Carollo for Observer. The retrospective, on view through May 25, intentionally avoids a linear narrative.

The opening of Cecily Brown's 'Death and the Maid' marks a sea change for women artists. Price Database. 17 June 2025. ... Brown begins by painting a figure, landscape or still life.

The Barnes welcomes acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown for her largest U.S. presentation.Cecily Brown's "Madrepora (Alluvial)" For centuries, women have been artistically depicted through a ...

Cecily Brown at the Metropolitan Museum review — guts, gore and the passage of time. ... “I think I’m painting a picture of two women, but it may turn out to be a landscape.” ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Barnes Foundation partnered with the Dallas Museum of Art to present "Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations." "It brings together some 30 works of Cecily Brown's career ...

British-born painter Cecily Brown’s Figures in a Landscape 2 (2002), currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, leans almost defiantly into abstraction.Where in all that melee are the ...

Cecily Brown, born in 1969, is a British painter known for her large-scale, gestural paintings that blur the lines between figuration and abstraction. Born in London, Brown moved to New York in ...

One could say Cecily Brown is drunk on art history. Throughout her 25-year career, the virtuosic British artist has engaged with seemingly every aspect of the Western canon—Renaissance artists ...