The Mood Room · Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman: A Painter's Dialogue With Gesture and History Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based visual artist whose work explores the intersection of abstraction and figuration, often employing unconventional media like animation, zines, and installation. Her artistic practice operates as a continuous conversation with art historical tropes—particularly postwar American gestural painting—serving as both inspiration and deliberat
e foil. Sillman’s approach isn't merely about replicating past styles; it’s about actively questioning their assumptions of mastery, genius, and power, introducing qualities like humor, awkwardness, self-deprecation, affect, and doubt into her creative process. Critics describe Sillman as championing “the relevance of painting” and “a reinvigorated mode of abstraction reclaiming the potency of active brushwork and visible gestures,” hi…
Set the room's
mood
— the light follows
Now showing —
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works lit