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Article: Amy Sillman at Amy Lipton. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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This show of 23 drawings and three large (40-by-46-inch) oil-and-gouache paintings, though deeply autobiographical, bespoke the repressed prettiness of anyone's dreaming about sex, particularly a female anyone. Sillman's standards for beauty seem to have originated in childhood, when all sorts of gross things made you giggly, but, looking back at the gigglers now, you just see pretty kids.
The way this show was hung - many drawings on one wall (some of them 11 by 8 inches, others twice as big), a single painting on each of the three others - suggests the drawings are meant to be taken as a whole, "a wall of small things," says Sillman. The totality is a fantastic ...