Amy Sillman, Anna Sew Hoy at SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.

[chandru1103]

"Hey there's Jerry Saltz, Let's Follow him!"

One of these days I will say these words and mean it.

[jameslour]

from the NYT:

"Ms. Sillman does not sufficiently defamiliarize the different styles she uses. So while her paintings are undeniably competent and good-looking, you miss the hair-raising surprise factor."

Is this true? Does an artist have to "defamiliarize" the work and provide "hair-raising surprise"?

[jameskalm]

@jameslour "Defamiliarize"? I guess I missed that class in art school, but it sounds like it involves electrodes attached to the forehead. There's plenty of "unfamiliarized" painting going on out there, and the NY Times critics generally run in the opposite direction, fast.

"Pastiche" now that's another subject.

[claureic]

@jameslour I didn't know the NYT had art critics...

[d1artbob]

I had an opinion of Amy Stillman's work that your video erased. Thanks, James. I now know more and understand her work and appreciate it more.

[MrWowforever]

wow....star studded turnout.......good for Amy Sillman, she deserves it :)

[kcollinsart]

Wonderful paintings! I loved the suite of drawings as well. Sillman's scraping and working of the surface and her color, her color, her color..just inspiring.

[MrSeanMDickinson]

Colours remind me of Hockney

[claureic]

That last Sillman piece (Shape 6.38), in the backroom... it reminds me of Bacon's 1946 Three studies for the base of a Crucifiction (the background, the long arm-like whitish shape...).

[MrWowforever]

@claureic  that was my first thought too. all that orange! :)

[claureic]

I love the suite of drawings. It shows that Sillman is the most talented heir to Philip Guston. I love her line, her colors. Top-class. Thanks James for this video.

[enforce007]

thanks for sharing