Review: In Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings, Amy Sillman MFA ’95 Pokes Fun at History and Makes a Case for Awkwardness
An excerpt from “Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings” by Amy Sillman (After 8 Books, 2020). Image courtesy the publisher
“What I love most about Sillman’s writing is how you can feel her pawing around in the dark, trying to suss out not only the right words to use, but the right way to contend with her subjects: the work of her peers and forebears, and the unwieldy question of painting’s status in a world preoccupied with bigger problems,” writes Andrea Gyorody. “She adeptly pokes fun at theory and art history, but she’s at her best making the case for awkwardness, for all that ‘which is fleshy, funny, downward-facing, uncontrollable.’”
Post Date: 12-03-2020
Post Date: 12-03-2020