Amy Sillman (Paperback)

Amy Sillman is an American painter living and working in New York. In a 2007 article in Artforum, Linda Norden wrote of Amy Sillman's "fearless, tenacious pursuit of a painting that might accurately register the discomfort, incoherence, and absurdity that can characterize painterly experience-and experience in general," and speaks of "her increasingly influential place among younger painters in both New York and Los Angeles, where she regularly shows, and her growing currency even among contingents of European painters." Sillman was born in Detroit, Michigan, and the winding story line of her early years led her to work in a cannery in Alaska and a feminist silkscreen factory in Chicago, and to train at New York University as a Japanese interpreter for the United Nations. She finally landed at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, graduating in 1979. Then she spent more than a decade content, as she has said, with "learning how to make paintings-just working, not showing."