Amy Sillman

Biography and works

"The New York painter has mischief up her sleeve, slyly populating her gorgeous abstract canvases with humorous figures and creatures."

"By being a dumb kid who goes on a road trip and stumbles backwards, just sort of reeling, being able to connect that experience with discovering abstract art… it had everything to do with it, with exactly what I was drawn to."

"Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,” Amy Sillman states, “a way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sublanguage-mumbling…”.