ArtBabble: Amy Sillman

Oranges and Sardines Artist Talk

Hammer Museum — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:49:39 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

HAMMER LECTURES

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Hammer Museum

Curator Gary Garrels in conversation with artists Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool.

Oranges and Sardines Walkthrough

Hammer Museum — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:17 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

HAMMER LECTURES

Institution:

Hammer Museum

The title for the exhibition was borrowed from American poet Frank O’Hara’s poem Why I Am Not a Painter, which reflects on the elusiveness of the creative process, often resulting in a finished work that bears no resemblance to its initial inspiration. Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting hoped to offer manifold examples of abstraction's inventive potential and will suggest varied reasons why it remains vital and essential to contemporary art.

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