April 1: Live Conversation with Cecily Brown & Jason Rosenfeld

On Wednesday, April 1, Cecily Brown joined Jason Rosenfeld, Editor-at-Large of The Brooklyn Rail, for a live conversation over ZOOM. Five-hundred viewers from around the world tuned in to participate in the event.

Watch a recording of the conversation above, in which Brown discusses the deep sensuality, messy aliveness, and art historical references colliding in her paintings. “People always think it starts figurative and goes abstract, but it doesn’t, it really goes back and forth. I often feel like I am painting something quite figuratively, but it often kind of disappears on me. I feel like often what you see at the end is the trace of me really trying and struggling to try to keep it figurative but, at the same time, say something in a different way,” Brown explains. “What I’m doing in the figurative-abstract-tightrope is trying to take different realities and shuffle and splice them.”

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, The Brooklyn Rail has shifted its operations online to host daily conversations with artists and writers as part of a series titled The New Social Environment: Lunchtime Conversations. The public is invited to join the live conversation over ZOOM. Learn more.