Dec 16, 2020, 6 PM

In Conversation: Torkwase Dyson, Amy Sillman, and Claire Gilman

Join 100 Drawings From Now artists Torkwase Dyson and Amy Sillman in conversation with Chief Curator Claire Gilman as they discuss the present and future of drawing and its ever increasing vitality during this destabilizing, painful, and transformative time.

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Torkwase Dyson

b. 1973, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Harlem and Newburgh, NY

Torkwase Dyson (born Chicago) received a BA from Tougaloo College in 1996, BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003. Working in multiple mediums, Dyson describes herself as a painter whose forms address the continuity of ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She merges ideas such as site and built environments, nature and culture under the rubric of environmentalism. Fascinated with transformations, ambiguities and environmental changes that place these subjects in relationship to each other, her work revolves around investigating our connections to imagination, materiality, geography and belonging
Amy Sillman

b. 1955, Detroit, MI

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Amy Sillman (b. 1955) is a painter who has lived and worked in NYC since 1975. She earned her BFA in 1979 at SVA, and her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Sillman’s work is rooted in drawing, the process of improvisation, and to negotiating the terrain between things, e.g. the corporeal and the intellectual, figuration and abstraction, or the intimate scale of the hand versus a larger sense of meaning that unfurls across physical spaces. Her work is held in many private and public collections in the US and Europe, including MoMA, The Whitney, the Brandhorst Museum in Munich, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and The Tate Modern in London. A mid-career traveling survey show "one lump or two," curated by Helen Molesworth, originated at The ICA Boston in 2013 accompanied by a monograph. Her animation After Metamorphoses was created for The Drawing Center, and was on view in the winter/spring of 2017. Last fall Sillman curated the exhibition “The Shape of Shape” for MoMA’s re-opening, accompanied by a 'zine entitled “Shapes” produced for MoMA Magazine. Sillman is represented by Gladstone Gallery in NYC, where her current solo show “Twice Removed” will be on view until November 14^th, 2020.

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The Drawing Center's Education and Community Programs are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Major support is provided by The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation.Additional support is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.

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Dec 16, 2020, 6 PM

In Conversation: Torkwase Dyson, Amy Sillman, and Claire Gilman

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