AMY SILLMAN

Sillman creates series of paintings and drawings in simultaneity, moving across them over an extended period of time, thereby establishing relations between pieces made at once. Yet, these works do not reiterate but rather contradict each other, each piece constructing a purposeful relation to the other through difference, thereby defining its own powerful structure. The artist first collects and then redacts lines, forms, colours and patterns in an eccentric search for an abstract form, spanning moods from vibrant and animated to gloomy despondency. Anthropomorphic suggestions of figuration emerge subtly, with fragments of body parts surfacing amidst the systematic jumble, appearing in comical and intimate dialogue with their surroundings. It is precisely through this push and pull of creation and redaction in which Sillman’s collected gestures defy each other that their conflicts can get resolved in the ultimate layer, finally landing on their surprising conclusion.

Amy Sillman‘s works have been show in many institutions worldwide, including the Arts Club of Chicago; The Camden Arts Center, London; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York, among others. Her work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and more.