“Amy Sillman: To Abstract” | Art21 "Extended Play"
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Episode [294]: Marking, whittling, struggling, scumbling, contradicting, and abstracting, artist Amy Sillman wrestles with the history and materiality of painting, reinvigorating the medium with new references and perspectives. In her Brooklyn studio, the artist works improvisationally using various nontraditional and ad-hoc tools to scrape, wipe, and wash off the paint she applies to the canvas in an ongoing process of editing and revision.
Amy Sillman was born in Detroit, MI in 1955 and is currently based in New York City, NY. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/amy-sillman
CREDITS |
Director: Ian Forster
Executive Producer: Tina Kukielski
Series Producer: Ian Forster
Editor: Misha Spivack
Camera: Jarred Alterman; Anne Misselwitz; Mattia Ramberti; Luigi Scaglione
Sound: Pasquin Mariani
Colorist: Max Blecker
Sound mix: Collin Blendell
Archival Producer: Leah Ford
Music: Joel Pickard
Assistant Editor: Michelle Hanks
Associate Producer: Andrea Chung
Assistant Curator: Jurrell Lewis
Research Assistant: Carina Martinez
Artwork and Archival Images Courtesy: Amy Sillman; Capitain Petzel; Gladstone Gallery; Thomas Dane Gallery; 27th São Paulo Bienal; 59th Venice Biennale; AFTER 8 BOOKS; Camden Arts Centre; CCS BARD; Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn; Portikus
Special Thanks: Eema
Additional Artwork and Archival Images
© Ida Applebroog. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Louise Bourgeois © 2024 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
© 2024 Carolee Schneemann Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
The Kipper Kids filmed by Tom Sewell. Courtesy The Sewell Archive
© Kurt Kren. Courtesy sixpackfilm
© YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro
Maria Lassnig © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna
© Elizabeth Murray. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery and Colby College Museum of Art
The Ordinaires filmed by Robin Schanzenbach
SVA Archives / Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives. Visual Arts Foundation
"Extended Play" is presented by the Marina Kellen French Foundation, with support from Lauren and Tim Schrager, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Every Page Foundation, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Henry Nias Foundation, and individual contributors.
TRANSLATIONS
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In this film, Amy SIllman asks, "What is your unit?" Tell us yours ⤵
It’s a tough question. Describing a visual act with words is tricky
The weird spaces in between contradictions.
How much energy I feel I have left to do something transformative on the canvas before I need to goto catch the train home, and other times, when my pallet is cleared of usable paint
Everyday gnarliness
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On top of it all, one of the nicest and funniest people in the NY art world.
I just discovered Amy Sillman and I think she has an unbelievable acumen for describing the art-making process, even though she says that language is too limiting (paraphrasing here). Love her work, too.
I enjoy her seemingly limitless concepts. Her use of red, or color in general, is also very effective
Fantastic paintings. I’m in love 🥰
Me too.
Hands down, one of the best artist of our time.
de kooning meets guston meets matisse blah blah blah over n over. oh and now she's added nude descending a staircase to the derivative mix. get a life amy!
This resonated so heavily with me on this morning- incredible work, amazing insight and process descriptions- feel very inspired after watching- thank you.
This video has been buffed to a high shine. Brilliant everything (editing, sound, framing, pacing, music, graphics)! Art 21 made amazing videos back in the day, and I'm so glad to see they're still crackin'. Amy literally just wrote a manifesto that has been in my head while pursuing "trouble" and striving mightily with creation/destruction push/pull in abstraction. Her confidence and work ethic has culminated in a very-worth-following *career* (I hate that word, but... ). Let's go AbEx II!!!
Brilliant video, artist, work… I am inspired to get to work today. Well, I work at my art everyday… but today I give myself permission to play!
Really one of your best @Ian Forster. I can see the fruits of the 'wrestle' you describe in how to tell her story. Love her work and use of language - envagle is underused. Joel P's as good as ever. Good trouble all around @Art21org.
Yes, Joel Pickard's score for this was top notch! Just perfect
inveigle is used more often ;-)
SO good to hear & see this; thank you!
The sequence drawings are amazing!
Excellent video. This is the first time I have been attracted to her work. Don't know if I've changed or her work has changed. Also she is so articulate about the process and insights to creating art.
Just discovered her and this video today 😍😍😍 so incredibly inspiring! Exactly how I like to paint!
So beautiful and poetic!!
I love her use of colour- I had never heard of her but now I will follow her inspired by her 100%
I’ve discovered this channel today and immediately love it. As an artist mussel I found your videos really informative.
Welcome to the channel! :)
"I don't know, I can't even answer the question" ...proceeds to answer with a boss level insightful power move.
Gracias!
Outstanding! I imagined walking in a gallery room and hearing this lady’s recorded voice. Getting to see her voice. Getting a multi- modal glimpse into her soul. That would be an wonderful experience ☺️
She’s new to me tonight I heart her brain.
Straordinaria!
❤🎉I love your Perspectives and Understanding of Your Inner Experieces whist in the Process of Creation👌‼️💐✨️ Thank YOU🎁❤ CAPE TOWN
The first expressionistic abstract artist, in a long time, that I've heard speak, who actually has a system, philosophy, grasp of art history, and raison d'etre.
6:06 This shot! 😍 Art. About art. Layers of art. 👏👏👏👏
Love this video.
Love the drama
Unit of trouble! I love her work so much. The animations are so incredibly interesting and unique.
Had work is Rad! I love her approach
좋은 영상과 작품 작가설명도 유익했습니다.
감사드립니다 🎉
Composition is so so strong.
I so relate to trouble as a unit. The going into and then leading yourself out maybe which could take numerous pieces and time...
Love her sensibility. She's basically a decorative painter but takes it to another level with her variety of shapes and improvisational process.
I do not agree that she is basically a decorative painter. A patient of feeling perhaps.
Gracias
power house. what a voice. what an eye. what an artist. thank you.
Brilliant
Agree❤❤❤
TROUBLE!!!!
me gusta su pintura
Thank you. I have been issuing kiddie pool. Need that sink.
I think my unit is connecting to others
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i feel like my unit is a rush of shame
looking at someones art is looking through a window into their brain………🤯
Abstract artist's really are very bad at 'explaining' their art. 'I like to do it' would be enough. The rest is just BS - and boring too.
genius=anti-genius=genius=anti-geniusgenius=anti-genius=genius=anti-geniusgenius=anti-genius=genius=anti-geniusgenius=anti-genius=genius=anti-genius.[hero=anti-hero].
but what is the content? Should the material replace the content? You can continue this textural shenanigans indefinitely - it won't add any content to the picture. So it remains decorative arts, not art.
Nonsense. Paper wasting. Life wasting. Sorry not sorry. No skills. There are some real artists and pretenders. To make aomething really beautiful requires sweat
I guess you can’t appreciate or understand contemporary art and that’s okay! Abstract art isn’t for everyone and not everyone can see it’s beauty!😅
Trouble. Hahaha
not buying that she doesnt use brushes sorry
It could be painting knife. Whatever it is. Pure sh**
Stories are cooler
@@evelinam.5835 i agree theyre so boring
Art is very personal. And I love her work and how she explains it. It speaks to my heart, maybe it doesn’t to your heart and that’s also okay.
7:43 😍 Who filmed this? 👏👏👏👏
7:38 🥰