About Amy Sillman and her art

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About Amy Sillman and her art

Text written by Patricia Ellis

Amy Sillman’s work is highly intuitive. Her rich, colourful paintings reveal a lyrical charm, detailing visions of dream-like impressions. Conceiving painting as an outward projection of an inner dialogue, Amy Sillman approaches painting as a visual sub-language, an expression of sentiments that float intangibly between mental consciousness and formulated communication. Amy Sillman’s canvases offer glimpses into this subliminal world; veering between abstract and almost representational, she strives to give form to the spontaneous meanderings of her imagination.

Pleasing and decorative, the delight in Amy Sillman’s work is in the sophistication of her application. In her study of how to express the totality of thought, she becomes absorbed in the semiotics of painterly language itself. Thick impasto mixes readily with sly dabs and drizzles, while radiant hues and hurried gestures appear in their own space and time. Amy Sillman’s compositions are as random and interconnected as bubbles of the subconscious, sharing a private thought that is simultaneously whimsical and crude.

In Amy Sillman’s canvases, forms effuse in disjointed rhythm, colour has the weightlessness of pure light. Strangely intimate, her abstractions capture the free-flow of unformulated ideas, resounding with a distant familiarity. Landscapes unfold as spills of colour, sunsets as jagged swipes, flowers and birds emerge with comic simplicity. Amy Sillman’s application replicates daydreaming itself. Patches build up in jumbled confusion while others trail off into capricious nothingness, forms repeat like fragmented memories, struggling to regain wholeness.

Amy Sillman’s paintings possess a confessional truthfulness, complexly articulated by an astute engagement with artistic lineage, psychoanalysis and feminist theory. In affirming her expression of ‘self’ she paints with an almost child-like sense of innocence, unmitigated and unembarrassed. Embracing a modernist reverence of inspired imagination, Amy Sillman defines honesty as the most enduring quality of painting.

AMY SILLMAN

About Amy Sillman and her art