2020, Cecily Brown, Selfie -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Painted during the initial outbreak of Covid-19, when the artist – like so many – was working in isolation, Selfie summons a cloistered, claustrophobic room. Figures and motifs from Brown's interiors of the early 2000s reappear, including a vanity with a round mirror and a reclining figure (both at right). The title, Selfie, matches the moment in which the work was painted, when the smartphone camera served both as a futuristic mirror for self-examination and a portal to an uncharted and threatening world.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
2020, Cecily Brown, Selfie -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Painted during the initial outbreak of Covid-19, when the artist – like so many – was working in isolation, Selfie summons a cloistered, claustrophobic room. Figures and motifs from Brown's interiors of the early 2000s reappear, including a vanity with a round mirror and a reclining figure (both at right). The title, Selfie, matches the moment in which the work was painted, when the smartphone camera served both as a futuristic mirror for self-examination and a portal to an uncharted and threatening world.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.