Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman by Valérie Smith is a comprehensive monograph published by Lund Humphries Publishers in 2019, featuring 144 pages in English. This book explores the prolific career of American artist Amy Sillman, who has made significant contributions across various mediums, including drawing, zines, and installation, while maintaining a focus on painting as the core of her artistic practice. The text delves into Sillman’s unique, time-based approach to painting, shaped by influences from filmmakers and musicians, as well as her engagement with art history.
Readers will find an in-depth examination of Sillman’s artistic evolution over two decades, from the late 1990s to the present. The book highlights her intensive cognitive and gestural exploration of materials, showcasing how she discovers, undoes, and reforms painterly ideas through interconnected works. Valérie Smith articulates how Sillman’s practice serves as a self-reflexive commentary on contemporary painting, presenting it as a dynamic continuum rather than a static conclusion. This monograph offers insights into the intersections of art and other disciplines, reflecting Sillman’s multifaceted creative identity.
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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 Smith’s text reveals Sillman’s 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. Sillman’s 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.
Sillman’s 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.
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