Amy Sillman
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Amy Sillman, C, 2007, oil on canvas, 45 x 39 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Fast painting #1, 2013-15, oil on canvas, 75 x 66 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Mother, 2013-14, oil on canvas, 92 × 84 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas, 52 x 49 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2013, oil on canvas, 49 x 51 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2013, oil on canvas, 75 x 66 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Untitled (window), 2009, oil on canvas, 51 x 43 inches |
Another abstract artist to add to my list which so far has included:
Paul Behnke,
Eric Sall,
Cordy Ryman, and
Jason Karolak. If this were a group show I'd also have to include Mary Heilmann, Jack Whitten and Thomas Nozkowski to round off a bit of the old and the new.
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Mary Heilmann, 311 Castro Street, 2001, oil on canvas, 54 x 36 inches |
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Mary Heilmann, Neo Noir, 1998, oil on canvas, 75 x 60 inches |
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Mary Heilmann, Psychedelic Serape #4, 1982, watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches |
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Mary Heilmann, Surfing on acid, 2005, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches |
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Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (9-9), 2012, oil on linen on panel, 22 x 28 inches |
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Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (8-128), 2010, oil on linen on panel, 22 x 28 inches |
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Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (9-2), 2011, oil on linen on panel, 22 x 28 inches |
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Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (9-10), 2012, oil on linen on panel, 22 x 28 inches |
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Stanley Whitney, Aura of the Sand Fall, 2014, oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches |
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Stanley Whitney, Dance the Orange, 2013, oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches |
These are all paintings that I absolutely love but could never make myself, and I absolutely love them
because I could never make them. I don't do geometry. But what I love and find affinity with is the hand drawn human element, the
imperfect geometry. Not to mention the wonderful surface tension, color and line (of course). It's a juicy, vibrant combination, as Mary Heilmann puts it, of "Albers and deKooning in the same painting." Of all these artists, Amy Sillman clearly references the body more than the others, but that's also why I love her work so much. Her blatant gesture combines figuration and abstraction in all the right ways. In certain pieces I can't help finding an affinity with (my first artist crush) painter Susan Rothenberg.
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Amy Sillman, Nut, 2011, oil on canvas, 91 x 84 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Junker, 2009, oil on canvas, 84 x 90 inches |
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Amy Sillman, Ich Auch, 2009, oil on canvas, 90.55 x 84.65 inches |
Here is a great interview in
BOMB magazine between Amy Sillman and R.H Quaytman where she talks more about the human element in her work.
Further looking and reading:
Sikkema, Jenkins & Co.
Art in America
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Susan Rothenberg, 4 Kinds, 1991, oil on canvas, 52 x 88 inches |
So maybe this would be the show...

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