Amy Sillman

Oh, Clock!, 2024
Eva Birkenstock, Kathleen Bühler, Jenny Nachtigall, Rose Higham-Stainton, Sabeth Buchmann, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Amy Sillman, Michelle Kuo, 2024
Paperback

Publisher: Walther König.

ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-7533-0698-8

Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.9 x 2.4 cm

Pages: 224
In her painting Amy Sillman is expanding the standards of abstraction using material and conceptual interventions in the painting process. In her cross-media approach to painting, she destabilizes dichotomies and hierarchies between figuration and abstraction, intimacy and awkwardness, skill and self-denial, and process and closure.
 
The publication Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock! sheds light on her critical engagement with the history of painting and conveys her complex painterly working methods on and beyond the canvas. The stimulatingly designed book provides insights into Sillman's approach to painting as a time-based medium. Around thirty paintings and three hundred works on paper, several digital animations, and site-specific installations, all of which were created over the last fifteen years, are presented in more detail. In her painting Amy Sillman is expanding the standards of abstraction using material and conceptual interventions in the painting process. In her media-spanning approach to painting she destabilizes purported dichotomies and hierarchizations between figuration and abstraction, intimacy and clumsiness, ability and self-negation, as well as process and completion.
 
Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock! highlights her critical exploration of the history of painting and conveys her complex and sophisticated painterly practice on canvas and beyond. The inspiringly designed book provides broad insights into Sillman's approach to painting as a time-based medium, presenting in detail around thirty paintings and three hundred works on paper, several digital animations, and site-specific installations, all of which were created in the last fifteen years.