Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations
Organized by the Barnes and the Dallas Museum of Art, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (British, b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. Presented in the Roberts Gallery, the exhibition features more than 30 paintings and related drawings that showcase Brown鈥檚 subversion of gendered tropes in art history and popular culture.
Themes and Variations sheds light on Brown鈥檚 practice and considers her work from a feminist perspective. It reveals how she reclaimed the heroic gestural expression associated with male artists of the abstract expressionist generation鈥攍argely out of favor with her peers鈥攖o create lush, dynamic paintings that often contain erotic content. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her work explores the power imbalances inherent in voyeurism and sexual violence.
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Organized by the Barnes and the Dallas Museum of Art, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (British, b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. Presented in the Roberts Gallery, the exhibition features more than 30 paintings and related drawings that showcase Brown鈥檚 subversion of gendered tropes in art history and popular culture.
Themes and Variations sheds light on Brown鈥檚 practice and considers her work from a feminist perspective. It reveals how she reclaimed the heroic gestural expression associated with male artists of the abstract expressionist generation鈥攍argely out of favor with her peers鈥攖o create lush, dynamic paintings that often contain erotic content. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her work explores the power imbalances inherent in voyeurism and sexual violence.
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