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Split 4

Amy Sillman American
2020
Not on view
As a painter, Sillman is equally interested in questions of color and form. In Split 4, she constructs a work in varying shades of green, demonstrating the painterly possibilities of a single color. The work is built-up through varied types of brush strokes and applications of paint: in some places deliberately rough and translucent, while in others smooth and opaque. Sillman often refers to a desire for her works to feel like an assembled array of "spare parts."[1] Here we see an unexpected collection of forms, color juxtapositions, and gestures suddenly made into a coherent whole, deftly unified within this single composition.

[1] Press release, "Amy Sillman: Twice Removed," New York: Gladstone Gallery, September 30–November 14, 2020.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Split 4
  • Artist: Amy Sillman (American, born Detroit, Michigan, 1955)
  • Date: 2020
  • Medium: Acrylic and oil on linen
  • Dimensions: 72 × 60 1/4 in. (182.9 × 153 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, 2024
  • Object Number: 2024.452
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Amy Sillman
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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