David Rimanelli on Cecily Brown – Artforum
WHAT’S INTERESTING about Cecily Brown is how from the very start her work gets positioned as a way to talk about what’s good or bad in painting. Her painting is good in a way that looks like it’s supposed to be good, that plays with a certain idea of “goodness.” But it also courts the bad. Not just the bad, the horrible. I’ve heard vitriolic takedowns of her technique and her mannerisms; someone once described her painterly facture, her surfaces, as “coleslaw.” “She manages to make the most expensive oil paints look like cheapest acrylic,” someone once wrote (not me). Now t...
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