Amy Sillman Overview

"Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,' Amy Sillman states, 'one way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sublanguage-mumbling.' Amy Sillman's canvases offer glimpses into a subliminal world. Strangely intimate, her abstractions capture the... [more]

"Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,' Amy Sillman states, 'one way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sublanguage-mumbling.' Amy Sillman's canvases offer glimpses into a subliminal world. Strangely intimate, her abstractions capture the free-flow of half-formulated ideas, resounding with a distant familiarity. In Cliff 1, a family of mallards is camouflaged between a field of daisies and a bright orange shape that is beginning to dissolve, like a jet's vapor trail. Striped drapery and a painterly tangle of pastel pinks and baby blues add to the atmosphere of cheery beginnings. Amy Sillman's work is highly intuitive; her rich, colourful paintings flow with a stream of conscious expression, detailing visions of dream-like impressions. In her canvases, forms effuse in disjointed rhythm, colour has the weightlessness of pure light. Pleasing and decorative, the delight in Sillman's work is in the complexity of her application. [show less]