Cecily Brown

Known for: large-scale figurative-abstract painting drawing on Old Masters

Cecily Brown studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before moving to New York in 1994, where her large-scale paintings — in which figurative imagery (often erotic, often derived from art history) is dissolved into gestural abstraction — attracted immediate commercial and critical attention. She draws on Old Masters, particularly Rubens, and Abstract Expressionism simultaneously, producing a practice located at the productive tension between the two traditions. She now lives between New York and Oxfordshire.