Cecily Brown

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In episode 45 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the greatest painters to ever live, the inimitable CECILY BROWN!!!!! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] I am SO EXCITED to release this episode which chronicles the UK-born, US-based Brown's incredible painterly career from the 1990s–present day! With her work steeped in art history, referencing the likes of Rubens, to Goya to Bacon and de Kooning, Cecily Brown is known for her all-encompassing, small-to-colossal scale paintings that portray the medium in a continual state of flux, constantly blurring the lines between abstraction and figuration, truth and fiction, liquid and solid. Always ALIVE with erotic energy, witnessing a Cecily Brown in the flesh is like seeing four-hundred years worth of painting unfold before your eyes. Every corner and inch of the canvas is activated, frenzied and fractured so intensely that you can’t help but project ideas around desire, life, and death, with the painting’s momentous fleshy and battle-like strokes and tones. Born in the UK in the late 1960s, Cecily Brown was granted a garage to paint by the esteemed British painter (and former GWA Podcast guest) Maggi Hambling, before going on to study at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. And in 1994, after a stint in America two years before, she relocated to New York City, where she has lived ever since, continuing the legacy of the renowned New York School artists. The subject of solo exhibitions at major institutions around the world, including the MFA Boston, Hirshhorn in Washington, Modern Art Oxford, and my favourite Louisiana Museum in Denmark, as well as countless shows at galleries including Thomas Dane and Paula Cooper, where I have been lucky enough to witness her work, Cecily is considered one of the most influential painters alive right now. And NOW she has recently opened a staggeringly brilliant exhibition at Blenheim Palace here in England, where she has conceived an entirely new body of work that responds to the Palace’s history, through hunting and battle scenes, as well as a brilliant commentary on the state of Britain right now and the romanticised but complex nature of British society. FURTHER LINKS! https://www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on/events/cecily-brown-art-exhibition/ All the Nightmares Came Today, 2012: https://www.artspace.com/cecily_brown/all-the-nightmares-came-today Current exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery: https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/cecily-brown-2020-10-15/selected-works Louisiana show: https://louisiana.master.re-cph.dk/en/exhibition/cecily-brown https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/cecily-brown-totally-unaware Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller) Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Great Woman Artist's podcast. I hope you are all doing well.
0:07.0	I am really delighted that this episode is sponsored by one of my favourite jewellery brands, Alighieri.
0:14.0	During this difficult time, Alighieri will be donating 10% of all online sales to refuge, the country's largest provider of support to women
0:24.0	and children escaping domestic violence. Alligieri is also offering 10% off for great women
0:30.8	artist listeners with the code TGWA at checkout. See www. www.
0:37.7	Allergieri.com for more.
0:40.6	Here are a few words from their founder, Roche Matani, and I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:47.4	In the dark forest, Dante encounters the lion.
0:51.0	Lion is described so terrifying that even the air around him is trembling with fear.
0:55.0	That is when he meets his guide Virgil, who gives him the strength to go through the rest of the afterworld.
1:01.0	The surreal lion hoops pay homage to this moment. The shape echo the tail of a lion with its textured tough at the end,
1:10.0	wear them as a reminder to give you courage through the winter months.
1:20.1	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hesel.
1:26.2	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters. Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:46.0	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:55.0	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener,
2:02.4	can gain a look into the greatest female artists working now or from art history.
2:13.1	I'm so excited to say that my guest on the Great Woman Artist podcast is one of the greatest painters to ever live, the inimitable Cecily Brown.
2:23.2	With her work steeped in art history referencing the likes of Rubens to Goya to Bacon and to Coonning,
2:29.4	Cecily Brown is known for her all-encompassing, small to colossal scale paintings that portray the medium in a
2:35.8	continual state of flux, constantly blurring the lines between abstraction and figuration,
2:40.9	truth and fiction, and liquid and solid. Always alive with erotic energy, witnessing a Cecily
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