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“I never think of painting as a cathartic thing, but I definitely think it is a way of processing things. And one is so – it’s such a cliché to say – that we’re overblown with images all the time, but of course more than ever. You can see 300 images before you get out of bed in the morning, if you care to […] The phone is obviously the death of society and culture.” —Cecily Brown
There are a lot of reasons to love Cecily Brown, not the least of which is that she has consistently turned out some of the best paintings of the last 20 years. After an enlightening show of works on paper at the Drawing Center in 2016, followed by a tour-de-force exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in the fall of 2017 (after nearly 20 years with Gagosian), Brown is now featured in a solo show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Where, When, How Often and with Whom, through March 10, 2019. In this video from the Louisiana Channel, Brown discusses her process, the specific inspiration for the namesake centerpiece of the exhibition and why she dislikes phones so much [spoiler alert: it’s the alienation].
