Letter from Texas

Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Amy Sillman’s work has an innate ability to merge abstraction and figuration into her own Contemporary abstract language. Sillman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of Visual Arts in 1979, and she has been professor of painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 2015. Her paintings, drawings, installations and animations have emerged over the last three decades as a premier exemplar of Contemporary art in the twenty-first century. Through her unique artistic process in which traditional modes of painting and drawing are melded with contemporary forms of media, Sillman’s work draws heavily upon the dynamic, gestural forms of Post War Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston.

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