Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown
Cecily Brownis a British painter. 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. Brown lives and works in New York City...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
daytime felt moved painting possible
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.
men ownership masculine
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
cat boredom want
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
movement painting illusion
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.