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Directions—Amy Sillman, Third Person Singular
Amy Sillman is known for paintings that are intimate, psychological and full of humor and pathos. For this new body of work, the artist begins by drawing couples from life and then makes additional drawings from memory, using these as inspiration for related paintings. Her works embrace abstraction without abandoning representation, as the details of the figures are shrouded behind bold strokes and geometric forms.
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One of the most celebrated conceptual artists of his time, John Baldessari also taught at California Institute of the Arts for several decades. After abandoning traditional painting in the late 1960s, Baldessari began to explore the ways in which visual images establish and embody meaning. This investigation is manifested in painted words carefully chosen by the artist but rendered by a sign painter. As in
Exhibiting Paintings, these texts typically describe the processes of exhibiting and evaluating art, offering a visual manifestation of a theoretical discourse. Baldessari also creates sequences of photographs that question the nature of human perception, and his video and mixed media works investigate the associations between visual experience and language.
