“I often avoid using the terms ‘figuration’ and ‘abstraction,’” the British artist Cecily Brown has said, “because I’ve always tried to have it both ways.” Brown paints what is almost there. Fleshy pinks, muddy browns, deep reds, and electric blues swirl across the canvas to form nearly discernible shapes—a leg, an arm, a crowd emerging from within the paint. Her work is often seen through the prism of Abstract Expressionism, and she’s been compared to Willem de Kooning. This mid-career survey presents 30 paintings that explore voyeurism, sexual violence, and power. —Elena Clavarino