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Amy Sillman I , 2008 Oil on canvas, 84½ × 93 in. Courtesy the artist Collection of Susan and Larry Marx
The body is an important subject in Sillman’s work, albeit an often invisible one. I is part of a series initiated with portraits of couples the artist drew first from life and then from memory. Using these as a starting point—and preserving the sitter’s initial as the title—Sillman applied and scraped away hundreds of layers of paint in an almost archaeological pursuit of transparency, lightness, and atmosphere. The abstract shapes across the canvas frame fields of vivid blue, evocative of sky as much as water. —HJ
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