Structure and Imagery

  Amy Sillman: Twice Removed Through November 14, 2020 web Gladstone Gallery 515 W 24th Street New Tork, NY From the Press Release: Dear Reader,        The time we’re living in is crazy, horrible, almost medieval with disease, increasing police brutality and militarization, diminishment of democratic rights, and the upcoming ledge of a terrifying election. I was supposed to have a show of drawings and paintings last May at Gladstone and titled it “Twice Removed”: " twice " to propose the idea of a multiplied subjectivity, being of two minds, forked paths, and having allegiances to both subject and object, thinking and feeling, abstraction and figuration, form and content, dialectics and contradictions; " removed " because my paintings are built through negation, a kind of violent erasure, scraping down, undoing, getting rid of. But  twice removed  was also a pun on the family relation, being adjacent to something older. I’m a knight’s move away from th...

Kenneth Noland at Paul Kasmin Gallery info  Installation view with Larry Bell and Bernard Piffaretti at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Photo courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery info Robert Ryman at Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea (image courtesy of the Dia Foundation website) info Jan  Müller at Lori Bookstein Fine Art info Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins info Amy Sillman (detail) Carrie Moyer at DC Moore Gallery info Judith Bernstein at Mary Boone Gallery info Al Held at Cheim & Read info Edie Martinez (detail) Eddie Martinez at Mitchell-Innes & Nash info Conrad Marca-Relli (detail) Conrad Marca-Relli at Hollis Taggart Galleries info Charlotte Park at Berry Campbell info Amanda Church at Morris Warren Gallery info Osamu Kobayashi at Morris Warren Gallery info Two small pieces (not pictured) by Ken Price are...

Amy Sillman ,  Williamsburg Portraits , 1991 -92, ink, gouache, pencil on paper 11 x 8 in. each From the Press Release: During a recent studio visit with  Katherine Bradford , we were looking at her work for our upcoming exhibition and discussing our frustration about how painting was not represented in the recent survey show at the Brooklyn Museum, entitled, “Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond”.  We looked at each other and said (I don’t remember who said it first), “Brooklyn is the painting capital of the world”. Yep, there it is, it’s out there. During one of our conversations,  Irving Sandler   told me that   at this moment there are more painters and more painters with serious studio practices in Brooklyn than in any place in the world, and many of the most important contemporary galleries and museum shows feature works by Brooklyn painters. Part II of  Back to the Future  will focus on some of the ...

  Molly Zuckerman-Hartung   Jacqueline Humphries   Laura Owens Louise Fishman Amy Sillman Charline von Heyl

Amy Sillman. Photo by   Brad Harris "Every day the raw, the goofy, the inexplicable, the urgent, the disrupting, the embarrassing, the awful, the complex, and the  fearsome barge into my life, whether I like it or not. I respond with paintings that are partly cartoon, partly lament, partly grudge, that I  hope are unpredictable, beautiful, but sort of shaggy. Doubt can be an  advantage. I have no advance visual  strategy. I don't make drawings before I begin and I make a lot of changes intuitively as I go along. I have an eye for the beauty of ugliness, awkwardness, isolation. Like a fatso, my paintings are  built for comfort, not for speed." -Amy Sillman