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Article: Amy Sillman at Brent Sikkema.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the color, light and atmosphere of Quattrocento Italy. Not incidentally, this body of work, which carried the overall title "The Umbrian Line," grew out of the artist's encounter with early Renaissance painting during a residency in Italy. As in Sillman's previous work, these pictures interweave elements of midcentury abstraction, Surrealism and Eastern mysticism with an iconography that is simultaneously personal and universal.
Frequently, Sillman evokes spiritual journeys or transitions between states of being in paintings that juxtapose devout otherworldly presences with Hans ...