Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative into large-scale, gestural oil paintings. Born in 1955 in Detroit, MI, Sillman received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. “Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,” she has said, “a way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sub-linguistic mumbling.” Her process-based work, suffused with humor and conceptual exploration, employs vibrant color and intense layering and drawing, and seeks intensity rather than beauty. In addition to her painting practice, Sillman also produces zines and iPad...