Curatorial Assistant Isabella Kapur writes on "Untitled (After Frans Snyders)," by Cecily Brown featured here and in our current exhibition "100 Drawings from Now" :
"Brown’s work...is a reminder of the grounding physical practice of drawing. Brown’s study of Frans Snyders’s "Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market" presents a mass of game meat, bloodless severed animal parts piled high in a gracefully drawn scene of violence and death. Subtle patches of red watercolor bleed into the shadows of the otherwise colorless figures, a change from the cacophonous colors of Snyders’s work that allows the weight and form of the flesh on the table to shift into focus. Brown shows us two things to be consumed, taken in, and experienced physically—art and food—complicating the inherent comfort of both with her choice of subject."
—
Tap the link in our bio to schedule a visit to the exhibition.
isajkapart aujourdhuirose
#cecilybrown #cecilybrownart
—
Ima...