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Born 1955 Detroit, Michigan. Known for: Psychological portrait painting, abstraction.
Committed to the idea that painting is an interior dialogue, Amy Sillman creates abstract oil paintings that express her ideas, many of them incomplete, and many of them seeming to flow from... Read full biography
Committed to the idea that painting is an interior dialogue, Amy Sillman creates abstract oil paintings that express her ideas, many of them incomplete, and many of them seeming to flow from childhood innocence. Some of her works are landscapes, and some are cityscapes. Sillman was born in Detroit... Read full biography
Committed to the idea that painting is an interior dialogue, Amy Sillman creates abstract oil paintings that express her ideas, many of them incomplete, and many of them seeming to flow from childhood innocence. Some of her works are landscapes, and some are cityscapes. Sillman was born in Detroit and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1979 and in 1995, from Bard College with an M.F.A. There was a nearly 20 year interval between those accomplishments. During that time,... Read full biography
Committed to the idea that painting is an interior dialogue, Amy Sillman creates abstract oil paintings that express her ideas, many of them incomplete, and many of them seeming to flow from childhood innocence. Some of her works are landscapes, and some are cityscapes. Sillman was born in Detroit and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1979 and in 1995, from Bard College with an M.F.A. There was a nearly 20 year interval between those accomplishments. During that time, living in Brooklyn, she got involved in a movement called Four Walls, an artist collective with Adam Simon, Michele Araujo, Mike Ballou and Claire Pentecoste. She shared a studio for 22 years with Laura Newman, but felt her work habits were pretty sloppy... Read full biography
Committed to the idea that painting is an interior dialogue, Amy Sillman creates abstract oil paintings that express her ideas, many of them incomplete, and many of them seeming to flow from childhood innocence. Some of her works are landscapes, and some are cityscapes. Sillman was born in Detroit and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1979 and in 1995, from Bard College with an M.F.A. There was a nearly 20 year interval between those accomplishments. During that time, living in Brooklyn, she got involved in a movement called Four Walls, an artist collective with Adam Simon, Michele Araujo, Mike Ballou and Claire Pentecoste. She shared a studio for 22 years with Laura Newman, but felt her work habits were pretty sloppy and decided to get more serious and to go back to school. At that time, her work was decorative, calligraphic, and ornate kind o... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950