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Amy Sillman

AMY SILLMAN

Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) DIA Beacon
Dia Bridgehampton, Long-term view From 28 June 2025
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For over three decades, Amy Sillman has created allover compositions across media in which figurative elements emerge from and recede behind abstract forms through an iterative process of layering and redaction, resulting in “an open field, where figure and ground are in very ambivalent, complex relationships.” For her Dia Bridgehampton exhibition, Sillman reimagines the relationship between figure and ground, using the gallery wall as a literal ground on which the improvisational and systematic coalesce.

Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) departs from a question: Can printmaking itself serve as a model and method for a whole room? The resulting installation features a newly commissioned, site-specific work painted and screenprinted directly onto the gallery walls, superimposed with a unique series of monotypes created during Sillman’s 2024–25 residency at Two Palms, a New York print studio. Taken together, these distinct yet integrated components demonstrate Sillman’s ability to toggle back and forth between media as well as between improvisational and systematic approaches while combining conceptual rigor with tongue-in-cheek humor.

Amy Sillman is curated by Jordan Carter, curator and co–department head, with Emily Markert, curatorial assistant.

All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.

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About the Artist

Amy Sillman is a leading American contemporary artist celebrated for her vibrant, process-driven paintings and drawings that sit at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Her work, which has been the subject of major institutional exhibitions and is held in prominent museum collections worldwide, is known for its humour, improvisation, and critical engagement with the traditions of abstract expressionism.

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About the Gallery

DIA Beacon is a renowned contemporary art museum situated in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. Housed in a repurposed 1929 Nabisco box printing factory, its expansive galleries and minimalist architecture make it a destination for lovers of postwar art and industrial design.

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DIA Beacon contemporary art institution in New York United States
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Opening hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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