COOPER PAULA,NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. - Cecily Brown : The 5 Senses - October 24 > December 2, 2024 @PaulaCooperNY
The 5 Senses
Cecily Brown
COOPER PAULA
534 West 21st Street NY, NY 10011
Tel 212.255.1105 / FAX 212.255.5156 e-mail:
OVERVIEW :
Paula Cooper Gallery, the first art gallery in SoHo, opened in 1968 with an exhibition to benefit the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The show included works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman, among others, as well as Sol LeWitt’s first wall drawing. For over fifty years, the gallery’s artistic agenda has remained focused on, though not limited to, conceptual and minimal art. In 1996, the gallery moved to Chelsea to occupy an award-winning redesigned 19th century building. The architect was Richard Gluckman. In 1999, Paula Cooper opened a second exhibition space at 521 West 21st Street. In fall 2018, the gallery temporarily relocated its primary space to 524 West 26th Street, opening with a 50th anniversary exhibition that benefitted March For Our Lives. Beyond its immediate artistic program, the gallery has regularly hosted concerts, music symposia, dance performances, book receptions, poetry readings, as well as art exhibitions and special events to benefit various national and community organizations. For 25 years until 2000, the gallery presented a much celebrated series of New Year’s Eve readings of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
October 24 > December 2, 2024
Cecily Brown, The Five Senses, 2023, Oil on linen, 89 x 83 in. © Cecily Brown. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.
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ABOUT EXHIBITION : The 5 Senses
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Cecily Brown in the gallery's primary exhibition space at 534 West 21st Street. This is the artist's first one-person exhibition in New York since the Metropolitan Museum of Art's retrospective Death and The Maid (2023) and reflects upon the contents of that exhibition––which surveyed Brown's work from the 1990s to the present––with a return to earlier themes.
Transcending classical notions of genre and narrative, Brown consistently draws from a wide range of motifs. The artist's newest body of work is informed by the remarkable collaborative series of allegorical paintings, The Five Senses (1617-18) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Now in the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid, each painting depicts figures surrounded by bountiful sensual stimuli intended to inspire sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch in turn.
The exhibition presents Brown's mediations on The Five Senses through paintings, drawings and prints. Here, the full range of Brown's theme is displayed across media, with monotypes and etchings installed alongside works on paper with ink, watercolor, and gouache. Also included in the exhibition are new paintings in which Brown implements UV printing, a technique which first appeared in the artist's work in 2013. Images of earlier paintings (some even unfinished) are printed onto canvas and then painted over, obscuring and continuing the original work and allowing the artist to explore endless new directions.
Concurrent to the Paula Cooper Gallery exhibition is Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations at the Dallas Museum of Art (September 29, 2024 – February 9, 2025). This is the largest exhibition of Brown's work in the United States to date, and the first to foreground her reconfigurations of art history and contemporary culture. This show will travel to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (March 9 – May 25, 2025).
ABOUT EXHIBITION : The 5 Senses
Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Cecily Brown in the gallery's primary exhibition space at 534 West 21st Street. This is the artist's first one-person exhibition in New York since the Metropolitan Museum of Art's retrospective Death and The Maid (2023) and reflects upon the contents of that exhibition––which surveyed Brown's work from the 1990s to the present––with a return to earlier themes.
Transcending classical notions of genre and narrative, Brown consistently draws from a wide range of motifs. The artist's newest body of work is informed by the remarkable collaborative series of allegorical paintings, The Five Senses (1617-18) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Now in the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid, each painting depicts figures surrounded by bountiful sensual stimuli intended to inspire sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch in turn.
The exhibition presents Brown's mediations on The Five Senses through paintings, drawings and prints. Here, the full range of Brown's theme is displayed across media, with monotypes and etchings installed alongside works on paper with ink, watercolor, and gouache. Also included in the exhibition are new paintings in which Brown implements UV printing, a technique which first appeared in the artist's work in 2013. Images of earlier paintings (some even unfinished) are printed onto canvas and then painted over, obscuring and continuing the original work and allowing the artist to explore endless new directions.
Concurrent to the Paula Cooper Gallery exhibition is Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations at the Dallas Museum of Art (September 29, 2024 – February 9, 2025). This is the largest exhibition of Brown's work in the United States to date, and the first to foreground her reconfigurations of art history and contemporary culture. This show will travel to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (March 9 – May 25, 2025).
web : http://cecilybrown.com
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Gallery Opening Hours : Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
Opening reception :Thursday, October 24, 6 – 8pm
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