Description A prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.
She also writes art criticism and teaches at Barnard College, New York..
About the Author Valerie Smith is an award-winning curator, who has worked extensively in New York and Europe.
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.
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.
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.
This comprehensive monograph covers two decades of production, from the late-1990s to the present. 1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching, and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice.
Description A prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b
