at home: Artists in Conversation | Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown, artist, in conversation with Francine Prose, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

"at home: Artists in Conversation"
Join us for lively and inspiring conversations with some of today’s most notable artists. "at home: Artists in Conversation" brings together curators and artists to discuss various artistic practices and insights into their work. This program was recorded on May 21, 2021, at 12 pm ET.

About Cecily Brown
Brown is a British artist and graduate of the Slade School of Art who has lived and worked in New York since the 1990s. She is a leading contemporary painter whose work combines abstraction and figuration, transcending classical notions of genre and narrative by drawing on a wide range of art historical references. Inspired by the fantastical visual worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya, the organizational principles of William Hogarth, and the gestural expressionism of Willem de Kooning, Brown creates energetic and atmospheric canvases that swirl with fragmented bodies.

Brown’s work is included in museum collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Tate. In 2018–19, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen presented "Where, When, How Often and with Whom," a twenty-year survey of Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints. Recently, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire displayed a major exhibition of new paintings Brown created in response to the palace and its collections.

Brown's first major monograph was published by Phaidon Press in 2020 and includes an essay by novelist and critic Francine Prose.

This program is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture.

Photo of Cecily Brown by Mark Hartman

[tdesanchez]

I can relate to the artist regarding the English Landscape and missing it. The essence of childhood and what one grew up to experience, certain sounds and times of the year. And the landscape does this i believe. It was so great to hear her say that she misses that aspect of home. Being away from home like this is quite powerful and as a painter as well I can understand where Cecily is coming from. Great interview with the artist.

[Kimmmyxrose]

Am i the only one kinda bothered that the interviewer kept trying to plug her own stuff? I’m here to learn about Cecily brown haha