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Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman
Library Shelf Location 18.SILL
Publication Date 2019
Description

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.

ISBN 9781848222977
Quantity 1
Pages 144 Pages, 241mm x 18mm x 286mm
Author Valerie Smith
Format Hardback
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers
Related Artist Amy Sillman
Categories Artist (relating to a single artist/collaborative team), Painting
Keywords Painting, Abstract painting
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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