The Brooklyn Rail: "Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock!"

Astrid Dick de Mareschal, 19 March 2025

The night after seeing Amy Sillman’s exhibition Oh, Clock!, I woke up from a dream in which her paintings were talking to me, emitting utterances as in a syncopated chorus. They were announcing that they are about to change.  

 

Sprawled across two floors, Sillman’s retrospective overviews the last fifteen years of her painting practice and connects it with a selection from the museum’s collection. Often playing an important role in the installation of her shows, Sillman painted the walls of the museum in swaths of reds, yellows, blues and greens combined with various shapes, and installed a long and thin wooden diagonal structure to cut through the main space and display prints.

 

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