Amy Sillman at the Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York March 7- May 25, 2014

The Whitney Museum is proud to present two works by Amy Sillman at the 2014 Whitney Biennale; 'Mother', a painted work by the artist and 'Fells', a three-dimensional collaboration with sculptor Pam Lins.

 

On view on the fourth floor of the 2014 Biennial, 'Fells' began with a question posed by sculptor Pam Lins about how to incorporate a painting into a sculpture, a proposal that she has been working for the past decade. Amy Sillman suggested that Lins begin a new work by taking and responding to one of Sillman's own canvases, and this began an ongoing back-and-forth exchange between their two studios. They continued this chain of moves and responses for over a year, Lins adding a form, Sillman changing a painting in reply, Lins painting a panel, and so on. The result is a hybrid structure in which the parts appear somehow coordinated and disjointed at the same time, its sculptural components challenging us to think about three-dimensional space even as its pictorial elements seem to disrupt that solid reality.

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