Amy Sillman: Oh Clock maps fifteen years of the American painter's restless practice across roughly 30 canvases, 300 works on paper, digital animations, and site-specific installations — a body of work that refuses to settle the argument between figuration and abstraction.
About This Book
Sillman's painting resists resolution. Working across canvas, paper, and digital media, she treats abstraction not as a destination but as a condition that figuration continually interrupts — and vice versa. Body parts surface and dissolve, colour shifts from dense polychrome to monochrome austerity, and forms oscillate between controlled complexity and deliberate clumsiness. This publication traces those movements across a sustained period of production, presenting her practice as fundamentally time-based: never finished, always mid-process. For painters, critics, and scholars interested in contemporary painting, abstract art, and the conceptual underpinnings of mark-making, it is an unusually honest document of a working method.
Key Features
- 224 pages of serial paintings, works on paper, digital animations, and installation documentation
- Author: Amy Sillman
- Approximately 30 paintings and 300 works on paper, plus digital animations and site-specific installations created over the last 15 years
- Published by Walther König, [Details available upon request]
What You'll Discover
- How Sillman destabilises the hierarchy between figuration and abstraction by allowing each to contaminate the other within a single practice
- The role of process and incompletion as deliberate conceptual positions — clumsiness and self-negation treated as formal strategies rather than failures
- A sustained engagement with painting as a time-based medium, evident across serial drawings where sequence and duration become structural elements
- The range of Sillman's material interventions, from intimate works on paper through to site-specific installations and digital animation
About the Author
Amy Sillman is an American artist whose practice centres on painting, drawing, and digital media. Her work engages critically with the history of painting, expanding the conventions of abstraction through material and conceptual interventions that foreground process, the body, and the instability of form.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 279 x 222 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783753306988
- Publisher: Walther König
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Painters, contemporary art scholars, and collectors with a serious interest in abstract art, works on paper, and the critical history of painting.