We are pleased to announce Amy Sillman’s first solo exhibition at the carlier | gebauer gallery. In parallel, we are showing an exhibition with videos by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys in Bogen 52.

Painter Amy Sillman was born in Chicago, she lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial and at P.S.1. Sillman’s work has developed continuously since the late seventies, and independently of hip trends and fashions. What is remarkable in Sillman’s painting is the productive openness toward contemporary culture, humor, mass media and psychoanalysis on the one hand and a stringent and deep interest in the possibilities of expression of abstract visual language on the other. The tremendous freedom in choosing these “sources” is reflected in her artistic practice: She combines figurative elements with abstract ones, everyday objects and abstract forms – creating spaces for association which lead the observer on a path of surprises. Ties to Philip Guston are by no means coincidental – Sillman herself calls him an important figure for her work.