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Cecily Brown in Conversation with Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015)  People often tell Cecily Brown that she paints like a man from the fifties. Her response? “Well, somebody’s got to do it.”Her large-scale, remarkably tactile oil paintings hover at the intersection between abstraction and figuration, and are often compared to Abstract Expressionist works. Based on the aggressive way she puts down paint and her star… Read More