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 perspectives. In her Brooklyn studio, the artist works improvisationally using various nontraditional and adhoc tools to scrape, wipe, and wash off the paint she applies to the canvas in an ongoing process of editing and revision.

Amy Sillman was born in Detroit, MI in 1955 and is currently based in New York City, NY. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/amysillman

CREDITS |
Director: Ian Forster
Executive Producer: Tina Kukielski
Series Producer: Ian Forster
Editor: Misha Spivack
Camera: Jarred Alterman; Anne Misselwitz; Mattia Ramberti; Luigi Scaglione
Sound: Pasquin Mariani
Colorist: Max Blecker
Sound mix: Collin Blendell
Archival Producer: Leah Ford
Music: Joel Pickard
Assistant Editor: Michelle Hanks
Associate Producer: Andrea Chung
Assistant Curator: Jurrell Lewis
Research Assistant: Carina Martinez

Artwork and Archival Images Courtesy: Amy Sillman; Capitain Petzel; Gladstone Gallery; Thomas Dane Gallery; 27th São Paulo Bienal; 59th Venice Biennale; AFTER 8 BOOKS; Camden Arts Centre; CCS BARD; Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn; Portikus

Special Thanks: Eema

Additional Artwork and Archival Images
© Ida Applebroog. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Louise Bourgeois © 2024 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
© 2024 Carolee Schneemann Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Ishmael HoustonJones and Fred Holland
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
The Kipper Kids filmed by Tom Sewell. Courtesy The Sewell Archive
© Kurt Kren. Courtesy sixpackfilm
© YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro
Maria Lassnig © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna
© Elizabeth Murray. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery and Colby College Museum of Art
The Ordinaires filmed by Robin Schanzenbach
SVA Archives / Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives. Visual Arts Foundation


"Extended Play" is presented by the Marina Kellen French Foundation, with support from Lauren and Tim Schrager, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Every Page Foundation, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Henry Nias Foundation, and individual contributors.

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