A prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production, from the late-1990s to the present.
Valerie Smiths text reveals Sillmans uniquely time-based approach to painting, influenced and inflected as much by filmmakers and musicians and the processes of her other chosen disciplines as by strictly art-historical forebears. Sillmans works perform an intensive cognitive and gestural interrogation of her chosen materials: discovering, undoing and reforming trains of painterly thought, often over long periods of time and across large numbers of linked works.
?Sillmans painting emerges as a radically expressive force; a pointedly self-reflexive practice that reformulates contemporary painting as an ever-evolving continuum and never simply a finished work. ? ? ? ?
American artist AmySillman works in many media but painting has remained always at the very heartof her practice. This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production,from the late-1990s to the present.
Valerie Smith is an award-winning curator, who has worked extensively in New York and Europe. She also writes art criticism and teaches at Barnard College, New York.
Extensive documentation and exploratory discussions of the various phases of Sillman’s career reveals where her methodology and philosophy merge
Amy Sillman is one of the most important, inventive, and intelligent painters of our time. This book offers a cogent yet probing introduction to her life and work. If youre already a fan, youll learn more. If you dont know her work yet, welcome to its rigorous, rabble-rousing, often ravishing ride. - Maggie Nelson
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