CECILY BROWN

Virtually handling a Cecily Brown sketchbook is still a treat.  The paper and brushstrokes feel like the real thing.  21 color reproductions of gouache, watercolor, and works on paper created in 2010 + 2011.  The book has been designed and formatted to mimic Brown's sketchbook. New copy. "Known for her lush surfaces, vivid color, and energetic brushwork, Cecily Brown inhabits her torrid, atmospheric paintings with life forms that swim amongst swells of color and gesture. Often cast in sensual situations, her figures advance and recede into painterly abstraction. With her various references to art history-- from the seventeenth-century French Classicism of Nicolas Poussin to the Baroque flamboyance of Peter Paul Rubens and the living gestures of Willem de Kooning, among other Abstract Expressionists--Brown reinvigorates twenty-first-century painting. Working alongside the traditions of the medium, and borrowing freely from them, Brown absorbs formerly male-dominated approaches to painting, unapologetically infusing a feminine viewpoint." - from the publisher 8.25 x 11.25 inches