Jennifer Samet reviews the exhibition Amy Sillman: one lump or two at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, on view through September 21, 2014.
Samet writes: "I was surprised to encounter, after seeing [the show], an oeuvre that was entirely about the body, touch, and the awkwardness of human interaction. Sillman works in a variety of media: cartoons, zines, iPad drawings and iPhone animations, on paper and on canvas — but the work is remarkably unified in terms of the issues it explores. It occurred to me that Sillman, more than any other contemporary artist, has been thoroughly mining the range of possibilities opened by the late work of Philip Guston."