Lecture Notes: Art Creation and Exhibition Process

Studio Setup

• Two Rooms:
  • Clean Room: Used for creating animations, editing iPad content, and other clean work.
  • Dirty Room: Used for painting and more hands-on art activities.

Painting Process

• Duration:
  • Varies greatly; can take between a week to a year.
  • Paintings are developed on the floor, repeatedly reworked.
  • Artwork sometimes shown publicly before considered complete by the artist.
  • Pieces may return from exhibitions for further work.

Exhibition Planning

• Model of Amy Silman’s First Museum Survey Show:
  • Utilized a miniature model of the IC Gallery to visualize the exhibition layout.

Portrait Series

• Origin:
  • Created for a group show during the rise of Williamsburg Brooklyn as an art scene.
  • Featured portraits of community members, capturing the essence of the local art community.
• Process:
  • Visited each person’s house to draw them.
  • Aim to capture the subject’s character, providing a portrait of the broader community.

Artistic Process

• Silman's Art Philosophy:
  • Predominantly a painter.
  • Describes the painting process as slow and transformative.
  • Involves a series of decisions, changes, and reversals.
  • Uses snapshots to document change and development.
  • Focuses on both creation and destruction in the art process.
  • Art-making seen as a devotion to transformation and procedure.