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2025

Painters Amy Sillman and Cameron Martin on Tragicomic Abstraction

By Amy Sillman and Cameron Martin

Be Brave. Be Experimental. Be Tough.

By Amy Sillman

Stubble and Ground: Amy Sillman in Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum

By Amy Sillman and Wayne Koestenbaum

The Bess Test

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock!

By Dominic van den Boogerd

For Amy Sillman, Making an Abstract Painting Is Like Finding Parking in New York: Endless, Improvised, and Torturous

By Amy Sillman and Mara Veitch

Questionnaire 150 (2025)

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock!

By Astrid Dick

Not A Retrospective: Amy Sillman at Ludwig Forum

By Mia Butter

The Works of Amy Sillman and a Conversation with Jordan Carter

By Amy Sillman and Jordan Carter

Amy Sillman "Oh, Clock!" Ludwig Forum / Aachen

By Ramona Heinlein

Send in the Clowns: Sasha Rossman on Amy Sillman at the Kunstmuseum Bern

By Sasha Rossman

Some Notes on the Collection Interventions / Curation Projects at Bern and Aachen

By Amy Sillman

Shit Happens: Notes on Awkwardness

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock!

By Astrid Dick

Notes from Bern

By Sascha Behrendt

2024

Fall: Abstraction as X-ray

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman stakes out contradictions

By Amy Sillman and Ian Forster

Everything Is Permitted

By Beniamino Foschini

Amy Sillman Dysformation

By Amy Sillman and Rachel Haidu

Süchtig nach Kobaltblau

By Claudia Bodin

Amy Sillman: Gladstone Gallery

By Barry Schwabsky

Summer: Abstraction as apprehension

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

By Edward Waisnis

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise

By Lyssa Sartori and Ian Pedigo

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise

By Louis Block

Riotous color, crisp compositions, and a continued defiance of figurative-vs.-abstract binaries.

By Aruna D’Souza

Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting

By Amy Sillman and Jason Stopa

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Amy Sillman's Dialectical Jaculations

By Felix Bernstein

The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing

By Adam Moss

Spring: Abstraction as ruin

By Amy Sillman

On Wood, Wind,No Tuba

By Amy Sillman

2023

Interview with Amy Sillman

By Amy Sillman with Ricardo Kugelmas

Possible Art Futures Now

By Joshua Decter

Amy Sillman “Temporary Object” Thomas Dane Gallery / Napoli

By Giulia Pollicita

Amy Sillman: Temporary Object

By Amanda Gluibizzi

The Belladonna of Time: Amy Sillman, “Temporary Object” at Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples

By Estelle Hoy

The Flesh of these Changes, Rose Higham-Stainton on Amy Sillman at Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples

By Rose Higham-Stainton

Amy Sillman – interview: ‘We’re in this sticky place between despair and vitality all the time’

By Angeria Rigamonti di Cutò

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Your iPhone Doesn’t Understand Amy Sillman

By Amy Sillman and Andrew Durbin

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Uncomfortable Beauty

By Joshua Decter

A brush with...Amy Sillman

By Amy Sillman and Ben Luke

Podcast Episode Here

Medium Cool: Amy Sillman on Alex Katz

By Amy Sillman

2022

Carolee Schneeman: Always a Painter

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman on Rebecca Solnit's Orwell's Roses

By Amy Sillman

2021

Best of 2021: Cezanne Drawing

By Amy Sillman

Unstraight Lines: Louise Fishman (1939–2021)

By Amy Sillman

Flashlight: The Signal of Elizabeth Murray's Paintings

By Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman

By Tausif Noor

Frieze Magazine

Faux Pas Review

By Isabel Mehl

2020

Amy Sillman: Twice Removed

By Phyllis Tuchman

Nine Innings: Notes of a Color Commentator

By Amy Sillman

Nine Innings: audio version

By Ross Klavun, former 1010 WINS news and sports announcer

A sentimental botany blooms

By Johanna Fateman

Amy Sillman's Breakthrough Moment is Here

By Jason Farago

Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings

By Amy Sillman

Edited by Charlotte Houette, François Lancien-Guilberteau, Benjamin Thorel. Foreword by Lynne Tillman

Goings On About Town

By Hilton Als

Philip Guston: From Garbage Cans to God

By Amy Sillman

Artist's Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape

By Rindon Johnson

Overcoming Isms Aruna D’Souza on “The Shape of Shape”

By Aruna D’Souza

Shape: A Conversation

By Amy Sillman with David Joselit

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2019

Reframing Modernism at the New MoMA

By Andrea K. Scott

Seating Plan Roulette

By Dan Fox

2018

Amy Sillman: Camden Art Centre

By Rachel Haidu

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Abstraction of The Body: Melissa Gordon on Amy Sillman at Camden Arts Centre, London

By Melissa Gordon

Delacroix

By Amy Sillman

In Conversation: Amy Sillman with Toby Kamps

By Amy Sillman with Toby Kamps

Malerei ist scheußlich

By Catrin Lorch

An Impossible Language

By Kerstin Stakemeier

The Vicarious Warmth of Amy Sillman’s Paintings

By Nicholas Hatfull

Art for Another Future: Learning from Hilma af Klint

By Helen Molesworth, Christine Burgin, Leah Dickerman, Lisa Florman, Josiah McElheny, R. H. Quaytman, and Amy Sillman

‘I’m working with and against painting’ – an interview with Amy Sillman

By Amy Sillman and Imelda Barnard

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Figure and Ground

By Martin Clark

Laura Owens

By Amy Sillman

Artisanal Abraction: The Elusive, Effusive Art of Amy Sillman

By Phyllis Tuchman

Goings On About Town

The Playfully Troubled Art of Amy Sillman

By Matt Mullen

2017

Bless This Mess
Review: Into Words: The Selected Writings of Carroll Dunham

By Amy Sillman

After Metamorphoses puts Ovid in motion.

By Ed Halter

Dear Maria Lassnig: Maria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past. Edited with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch, Denys Zacharopoulos. Foreword by Peter Pakesch. Text by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ingrid Rowland, Elisabeth Schlebrügge, Amy Sillman.

By Amy Sillman

Unpresidented Times

By Amy Sillman

Why Amelie von Wulffen Is Funny

By Amy Sillman

2016

Interview with Amy Sillman

By Amy Sillman with Fabian Schöneich

From "Amy Sillman: the ALL-OVER"

On Color: from Painting Beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition, Edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

By Amy Sillman

Review: Amy Sillman Returns to Figurative Motifs

By Roberta Smith

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Gebt ihr das Rosa!

By Jens Hinrichsen

2015

Shit Happens

By Amy Sillman

Key to Test Strips

By Eileen Miles

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House of Frankenthaler

By Amy Sillman

The Uncertain Certainty: States of the Art of Painting

By Robert Enright

Stages of Laughter 2

By Amy Sillman

2014

Shifting Contexts, Psychodrama and Meta-Works

By Karen Rosenberg

Ed Halter on Amy Sillman

By Ed Halter

Statements of Intent

By Mark Godfrey

Review: Amy Sillman at ICA, Boston

By Matt Saunders

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2013

Triscuits, Film | Best of 2013

By J. Hoberman

Witty and bright, Amy Sillman’s work is freshly urgent

By Sebastian Smee

Blobs and Slashes, Interrupted by Forms

By Ted Loos

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Amy Sillman by R. H. Quaytman

By Amy Sillman with R. H. Quaytman

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2012

Some Thoughts on John Chamberlain

By Amy Sillman

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