Cecily Brown. Justify My Love (detail), 2003–4. Forman Family Collection. © Cecily Brown
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About the Talk
Jason Rosenfeld: “Cecily Brown’s Black Paintings: Tenebrism in Contemporary Art”
On-Site & Online Talk | Member Appreciation Days
Inspired by our current exhibition, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations, art history professor Jason Rosenfeld will trace the consistent use of black backgrounds in Brown’s work, dating back to her original suite of Black Paintings in 2002–3, and its antecedents in the history of art.
Cecily Brown. Justify My Love, 2003–4. Forman Family Collection. © Cecily Brown
Speaker
Jason Rosenfeld is professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College and a senior writer and editor-at-large at the Brooklyn Rail, where he writes about contemporary art and museum exhibitions. He is the coauthor of the 2020 monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon Press) and the author of the forthcoming Shahzia Sikander monograph (Lund Humphries Press, 2025). Rosenfeld also co-curated the touring exhibitions Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (2012–14) and Millais (2007–8).
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