149. AMY
SILLMAN
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Amy
Sillman
Ich Auch 2009 Oil on canvas 230 x 215 cm |
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Amy
Sillman
Bed 2006 Oil on canvas 231 x 213.4 cm |
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Amy
Sillman
Cliff 1 2005 Oil on canvas 183 x 152 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1966, in Detroit Michagan, USA
Nowadays:
Lives and works in NY
Studies:
Prior to graduating from Manhattan's School of Visual Arts in
1979, she held a wide variety of jobs, including working in a cannery in
Alaska, a feminist silkscreen factory in Chicago, and training at New York
University as a Japanese interpreter for the United Nations. While a student at
the School of Visual Arts, Sillman worked with May Stevens, Joan Snyder, Pat
Steir, Louise Fishman, and Harmony Hammond on Heresies: A Feminist Publication
on Art and Politics.
Themes and
style:
Sillman's work is both abstract and
representational, incorporating elements such as figuration, collage, and
diagrammatic shapes.In a 2006 Artforum article, Jan Avgikos wrote that
Sillman’s paintings “mine the edges of abstraction, meshing patches of color
with bursts of chaotic line and web-like compositional scaffolding.” Her
layered works often include humor, visual jokes,cartoons, psychological
elements, and feminist critique.
Techniques:
Is
developed in paintings
Exhibitions
Sillman began showing at the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New
York in 2000. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and
shows at Capitain-Petzel in Berlin, at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, at
[Campoli Presti in Paris and at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los
Angeles. The first large scale survey of her work, curated by Helen Molesworth,
premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in October 2013.
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
In
her own words:
“Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an
interior dialogue,” Amy Sillman states, “a way to engage in a kind of internal
discourse, or sub-linguistic mumbling…”.
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more Information: