Sunday, November 17, 2013

Amy Sillman

"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
 
Painting included in prior exhibition: "Third Person Singular"

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