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Amy Sillman: To Abstract

Ian Forster · USA · Documentary · 9 min · 133K views

In her Brooklyn studio, painter Amy Sillman scrapes, wipes and reworks her canvases, wrestling with the history and materiality of abstract painting.

An intimate studio portrait showing how abstract paintings get made, unmade and remade.

Episode [294]: Marking, whittling, struggling, scumbling, contradicting, and abstracting, artist Amy Sillman wrestles with the history and materiality of painting, reinvigorating the medium with new references and perspe

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