Two Palms is pleased to debut a new body of editioned works from Cecily Brown. Transcending classical notions of genre and narrative, Brown consistently draws from a wide range of motifs. Throughout her career, she has returned to the work of old masters as a jumping off point to explore contemporary ideas of sexuality, desire, death and excess. Brown’s latest works look toward the paintings of Titian, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, among others, nestling figures among bountiful sensual stimuli.

Cecily Brown’s silkscreens - her first made at Two Palms - are in dialogue with The Five Senses, a collaborative series of allegorical paintings made in the early 1600s by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. These new works draw liberally on the images of all five of the senses, layering imagery from sight, sound, touch, taste and smell until only fragments of each are visible. 

I’m figuring something out, by copying a work. You internalize it and get to know it so well. It’s more of a conversation or a way of having a dialogue. And, of course, I’m going to take things from everyone […] and use it. I need to respond to the art I look at. So, in a way my paintings are my reply. To go back to painting being a question, and art being a question, I want to talk back.
- Cecily Brown