She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial in 2014 her writing has appeared in Bookforum and Artforum, among other publications. Faux Pas aims at revealing the coherence and originality of Sillmans reflection, as she addresses the possibilities of art today, favoring excess over good. She began to study painting in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts and she received her MFA from Bard College in 1995. her writings display the same good humor and intelligence of her best paintings."īased in New York City, Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an artist whose work consistently combines the visceral with the intellectual. As Jason Farago notes in the New York Times, "Sillman is in a thin crowd (with, let's say, Andrea Fraser, Hito Steyerl, Matias Faldbakken, David Salle) of artists who can really write. You can also pre-order for the 1/3/23 US release here. You can find the book here My book Faux Pas has been reissued by After 8 Books in an expanded edition You can order directly from After 8 in Paris here. Featuring a foreword by Lynne Tillman, Faux Pas is the first book to gather a significant selection of Sillman's essays, reviews and lectures, accompanied by drawings, most of them made specially for the book.įaux Pas aims at revealing the coherence and originality of Sillman's reflection, as she addresses the possibilities of art today, favoring excess over good taste, wrestling over dandyism, forms over symbols, with as much critical sense as humor. The beautiful book accompanying the show has a small essay by me about the artist as a painter. Over the past decade, Sillman has also produced stimulating essays on the practice of art or the work of other artists: for example, reevaluating the work of the abstract expressionists with a queer eye elaborating on the role of awkwardness and the body in the artistic process and discussing in depth the role and meanings of color and shape. Since the 1970s, Amy Sillman-a beloved and key figure of the New York art scene-has developed a singular body of work that includes large-scale gestural paintings blending abstraction with representation, as well as zines and iPad animations. It’s been a long ride since her career’s mid-1970s outset, but Sillman is finally being recognised as a multi-talented modern master.Aprašymas Essays on art-making, abstraction, humor, not-knowing, awkwardness and more, from one of New York's most influential and popular painters and teachers Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings Paperback Octoby Charlotte Houette (Editor), Franois Lancien-Guilberteau (Editor), Benjamin Thorel (Editor), 56 ratings Paperback from 79.77 1 Collectible from 79. Meanwhile, for latecomers, images from that show fold into a soon-to-come reissue of her terrific 2020 book of selected writings, Faux Pas. That she’s contributed to revivifying her medium was reflected in Sillman’s presence in Cecilia Alemani’s international exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale, where the American painter’s big paintings on dangling paper moved like a filmstrip, her restless compositions semaphoring suggestions of human and animal bodies. Jason Farago, New York Times This new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul Czanne, Carolee. But few of its contemporary practitioners come close to Sillman’s jolie-laide visual nous, perhaps because her work springs from unusual, twined roots: the unfettered vibrancy of Abstract Expressionism and the pop mobility of animation (which, along with zines, she also makes and exhibits on iPads). her writings display the same good humor and intelligence of her best paintings. Painting is everywhere, you may have noticed, and abstraction is beginning to supplant figuration again.
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