{"data":{"id":"9007","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":9007,"topgoose_id":635,"tms_id":9007,"display_name":"Amy Sillman","sort_name":"Sillman Amy","display_date":"1955–","begin_date":"1955","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eThrough her art and writings, Amy\nSillman has played a significant role in the\nresurgence of American painting since\nthe mid-1990s and in the artistic discourse\nthat surrounds it. Although known\nprimarily for her large-scale oil paintings—\nworks at once rigorous and playful that\nhover between abstraction and figuration,\nexecuted in surprising color palettes—\ndrawing is a crucial part of the way she\nworks. “I think the core of my practice is\ncompletely drawing,” she has said.\nSillman has explored language and image\nin this medium and, more recently, has\nused contemporary technology such as the\niPhone to make drawings that she then\ntranslates into animated films.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eUntitled April Drawing 3, \u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/45975\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVersion 2\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\nand \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/45976\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVersion 3\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e were part of a group of more\nthan a dozen drawings on which Sillman\nworked serially, one leading to another in an\ninstinctive process of formal experimentation.\nIn her oil paintings Sillman works through\nmany stages, each successive reworking\nresponding to previous gestures and strokes\nyet leading to a final composition that\nmay look nothing like the one with which\nshe began. The more naked medium\nof drawing lays this process bare so\nthat we can see how her compositional\ntinkerings progress from one sheet\nto the next. Here, the faucet/phallic shape\nbecomes pinched and tightened into two\nseparate forms, while the background\nshapes sharpen from washy curves into\nthinner, darker lines. Many of the traditional\ndichotomies associated with working\nin two dimensions—line/color, figure/ground,\nflatness/space—play out lyrically before\nus in these two works.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":null,"wikidata_id":"Q481952","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:45:45.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-10T07:00:54.015-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/9007/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/9007/exhibitions"}}}}