Amy Sillman's Philosophy of Doubt
The painter, writer, educator and self-described ‘art appreciator’ invites us to follow and think alongside her Amy Sillman has been studying the Bible. Specifically, the artist has been looking at the Five Books of Moses – or Torah – with their litany of travails, victories and epiphanies of a people exiled in search of a homeland. Though she has Jewish roots, Sillman approaches her studies with secular enthusiasm, teasing out bathetic moments in scripture that have a decidedly human...
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