“Brown lets paint behave like a crowd — magenta and ochre and garden green pushing each other across the surface until something figural appears almost against its will.”
Cecily Brown
Painter · Contemporary · b. 1969
British painter whose churning canvases dissolve flesh, fruit, and beasts into magenta, ochre, and a green that always smells of garden.
The Palette
Curatorial Note
“Brown lets paint behave like a crowd — magenta and ochre and garden green pushing each other across the surface until something figural appears almost against its will.”
British painter whose churning canvases dissolve flesh, fruit, and beasts into magenta, ochre, and a green that always smells of garden.