Cecily Brown - MCA Santa Barbara
Cecily Brown: Rehearsal is the artist’s first museum show on the West Coast and the first exhibition dedicated to her drawings.
On view January 28 through June 3, 2018.
On view January 28 through June 3, 2018.
Arranged thematically, the more than eighty small drawings, large-scale
works, and sketchbooks on view will foreground Brown’s iterative
reworking of motifs from her wide-reaching arsenal of source
material—prints by eighteenth-century draftsman William Hogarth, pages
from animal clip-art books, and the cover of Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 album Electric Ladyland
are just some of the images that Brown has rendered again and again in
her own hand. These drawings are not studies for her paintings but
rather a distinct form of aesthetic inquiry, one that isolates the
investigatory impulse that grounds Brown’s art in general.