![]() ![]() “In these seventeen scintillating essays Amy Sillman excites, provokes ideas, plunders and aggravates language, detonates words with innovation, the way she does paint, pencil, color, line, stroke, mark, etc. In Faux Pas, a collection of her most recent essays, alongside her cartoons and original drawings, art-as personal as it is political-is a practice that responds to today’s struggles. Her writings extend a practice that challenges traditions and theoretical frameworks with criticality and humor, and advocates subjectivity: she reevaluates Abstract Expressionism with a queer eye, explores the meanings of color and shape, and discusses in depth the work of other artists-from Delacroix to Maria Lassnig to Laura Owens. She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York.SOLD OUT // THIRD REPRINT PLANNED IN 2022Ī key figure in the New York art scene, Amy Sillman is renowned for her singular approach to painting and drawing. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial in 2014 and the Venice Biennale in 2022 her writing has appeared in Bookforum and Artforum, among other publications. She began to study painting in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts and she received her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Featuring a foreword by Lynne Tillman, Faux Pas gathers 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.īased in New York City, Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an artist whose work consistently combines the visceral with the intellectual. 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, 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. New drawings from 2020–22 include a selection of works on paper that were part of the artist’s installation at the 59th International Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, in 2022. The previously unpublished text from a lecture on drawing complements Sillman’s views on color and shape. 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 Cézanne, Carolee Schneemann, Elizabeth Murray and Louise Fishman. her writings display the same good humor and intelligence of her best paintings.” –Jason Farago, 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. Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings / ISBN 9782492650048 / small 288-page paperback published by After 8 Books in 2023 ![]()
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