Faux Pas

A key figure in the New York art scene, Amy Sillman is renowned for her singular approach to painting and drawing. Her writings extend a practice that challenges traditions and theoretical frameworks with criticality and humour, and advocates subjectivity: she reevaluates Abstract Expressionism with a queer eye, explores the meanings of colour and shape, and discusses in depth the work of other artists - from Delacroix to Maria Lassnig to Laura Owens. In 'Faux Pas', a collection of her most recent essays, alongside her cartoons and original drawings, art - as personal as it is political - is a practice that responds to today's struggles. This new, updated edition features additional texts - including a previously unpublished essay on drawing that complements Sillman's views on color and shape - as well as new drawings from 2020-22.