Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell brings together significant artworks by three quintessential abstract artists. Through the performance series Monumental Connection, featured artists engage in dialogue with performers whose work resonates with Sam Gilliam’s love for jazz, Joan Mitchell’s lifelong connection to poetry, and the frenetic physicality of Cecily Brown’s paintings.
Cecily Brown (b. 1969) is recognized for her lively brushwork and narrative compositions that synthesize historical tropes and self-referential strategies of European and American painting. The push and pull of the paint gives Brown’s body of work a dynamic sense of motion, informed by both historic British hunt paintings and contemporary abstract figuration.
Join us for an improvised group movement performance by Shua Group, mirroring the frenetic movement and emotion in Cecily Brown’s The Hunt.
Shua Group is a performance group based in Detroit, Michigan. They create performances through dance, movement, voice, and light. The works are often interactive and consider universal and contemporary human questions. They open a space to experience our shared humanity in an increasingly dissonant world.
Shua Group works have been presented by critical US performance venues including Danspace Project, Judson Church, Joyce Theatre Foundation, and Dixon Place. Shua Group is also the creative director of Andy – a performance and training center in Detroit. Shua Group offers creative residencies and performance opportunities for local, national, and international artists.
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