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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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 ...

The opening of Cecily Brown's 'Death and the Maid' marks a sea change for women artists. Price Database. 22 June 2025. ... Brown begins by painting a figure, landscape or still life.

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations is the first exhibition to fully explore the pioneering British-American artist's work through the lens of its groundbreaking reconfiguration of cultural politics.

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 ...

Cecily Brown’s DMA show offers a painted world full of sensual, tangible experience About 30 large-scale works showcase the London-born artist’s evolution since the 1990s.

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.” ...