To Be Other-Wise
May 2 — June 15, 2024
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone presents To Be Other-Wise, an exhibition of recent paintings, works on paper, and a video by Amy Sillman. Depicting both recognizable and reimagined forms, Sillman's paintings push and pull between overt abstraction and ciphered figuration. In To Be Other-Wise, Sillman lays bare the time and space in which abstraction is made through a sequential unfolding of thought and process. Her serial works on paper reveal an analog animation process, unfurling the various stages of mark-making that in paintings are compressed into buried layers. Sillman embraces an artistic process that champions improvisation and challenges conventional notions of form and representation.
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Photography by Calla Kessler
Amy Sillman was born in 1955 in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives and works in New York. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including: Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois; Camden Arts Centre, London; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 2014, Sillman’s solo exhibition, one lump or two, traveled from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, to the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. In 2022, Sillman participated in The International Exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams. Sillman's book of writing on art, Faux Pas, was published by After 8 Books in Paris, in 2020, and is now in its third printing. Sillman’s works are held in the public collections of prominent institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Sillman has two major solo exhibitions currently on view, Oh, Clock! at Ludwig Forum in Aachen until August 2025 and Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) at Dia Bridgehampton until May 2026.
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