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ICA Ramp Project: Amy Sillman

September 8 - December 12, 2004
Exhibition Walkthrough: Friday, September 10, 5-6pm, ICA Members Only, join on-site
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 6 - 8pm, free and open to the public

July 29, 2004

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is pleased to present the seventh installation in its ongoing series of Ramp Projects. For this installation, ICA has invited Amy Sillman (b. 1956, Chicago, Illinois; lives New York, New York) to do a large wall-work. Sillman paints according to an idiosyncratic method of post-Surrealist, latter day Chicago Funk School, stream-of-consciousness. At once figurative, decorative, narrative and abstract, her paintings channel a voracious and noodling intelligence about "anything intimate," including Italian fresco painting, Indian miniature painting, the films of Douglas Sirk, the surfaces of Abstract Expressionist painting, poetry, and television. Indeed, Sillman has described her work as "partly cartoon, partly lament, partly grudge."

Amy Sillman is a "painting lover's painter" (Peter Schjeldahl, Village Voice, 1998). Her work has been widely exhibited since the early 1980s in group shows around the world. She is a founder of the artist-run gallery Four Walls, in Brooklyn, New York; Milton Avery Professor in the Arts at Bard College; and a 2001-2002 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

ICA Ramp Project
Since 2000, ICA has commissioned artist installations for its 92' ramp, a transitional space that connects the first and second floor galleries. With its striking architecture and soaring windows overlooking 36th Street, the Ramp has been transformed into a dynamic programmed exhibition space, exposing the public to the contemporary art that is central to the ICA's mission.

Image: Amy Stillman, Untitled, 2004, Watercolor on paper, 15 x 11 inches, courtesy of the artist

ICA
Founded in 1963 as part of the University of Pennsylvania, ICA presents a year-round exhibition schedule that defines, analyzes, and explores the contemporary visual arts. A non-collecting museum, ICA offers one-person, thematic, and group exhibitions, including commissioned works. ICA diversifies its examination of art to include interdisciplinary work such as film, video, performance, architecture, and design. ICA plays a vital role in introducing American audiences to rising international artists and is also committed to the regional arts community. ICA has been at the forefront of contemporary art for 40 years, presenting the first museum solo exhibitions of artists Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Lisa Yuskavage, Charles LeDray and many others.

ICA is located at 118 South 36th Street at the University of Pennsylvania. ICA is open to the public, except during installation, from 12:00pm to 8:00pm on Wednesday through Friday and from 11:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults; $2 for students over 12, artists, and senior citizens; and free to ICA members, children 12 and under, PENN card holders, and on Sundays from 11:00am to 1:00pm. For more information, call 215-898-7108/5911.

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