Don’t Miss – Berlin: Cecily Brown at Contemporary Fine Arts, through June 5th, 2010
May 29th, 2010
Justify My Love, Cecily Brown, 2004, oil on linen. Image via CFA, Berlin.
Cecily Brown‘s exhibition at the Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, features large-scale oil paintings on canvas and linen. Brown camouflages her subjects, often females in torrid positions, within alternately muted and frenzied colors and animated brush strokes. Her use of blurred lines and monochromatic colors forces the observer to look carefully to discern the action of the painting. Brown employs figuration and expressionism in this exhibition, which combines lush landscape paintings with motifs of sexuality and attraction.
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Brown’s later, Eden-like landscapes suggest fertility and femininity, while her earlier paintings, set indoors, are often more explicit. Brown’s experimentation with color has similarly evolved over the course of the past decade.
Couple, Cecily Brown, 2004, oil on linen. Image via CFA, Berlin.
Teenage Wildlife, Cecily Brown, 2004, oil on linen. Image via CFA, Berlin.
Single Room Furnished, Cecily Brown, 2000, oil on canvas. Image via CFA, Berlin.
Sweetie, Cecily Brown, 2001, oil on canvas. Image via CFA, Berlin.
In a 2005 interview, Brown mused on her style: “I think when I was doing a lot of sexual painting, what I wanted–in a way that I think is not too literal–was for the paint to embody the same sensations that bodies would. Oil paint very easily suggests bodily fluids and flesh.”
Cecily Brown’s paintings will be on display until June 5th, 2010.
Related links:
Artists | Cecily Brown [Contemporary Fine Arts]
Cecily Brown | CFA, Berlin [Art Splash]
Culture | ‘I Like the Cheap and Nasty’ [The Observer]
