Eric Fischl photo by Ralph Gibson; Amy Sillman, Self Portrait, photo courtesy the artist

Tickets

• General Ticket: $25

• Members: $20

There is a certain degree of magic required in curation, be it curating other people’s work or composing your own work and vision for an upcoming exhibition. To celebrate the concurrent opening of two mammoth shows, The Ark at The Church and Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1-32) at Dia Bridgehampton, artist/curator Eric Fischl joins renowned artist Amy Sillman in dialogue, discussing their respective shows and the process of putting them together. The collaborative program invites audiences to inquiry and insight as the two artists share their perspectives and values in determining thematic choices, inclusion, and overall vision, while doing a deep dive into two of this summer’s great East End contemporary art exhibitions. The pair will be joined by Jordan Carter, Curator and Co-Deapartment Head, Dia Art Foundation, who will moderate the dialogue and offer his own insights into the process. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A with the two.

Tickets are limited so please purchase in advance to avoid the waitlist.

To view The Ark, curated by Fischl please stop by The Church during exhibition hours, Thursday-Monday, 11 AM – 5 PM. To View Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1-32), please stop by Dia Bridgehampton at 23 Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, NY during exhibition hours Friday – Sunday, 12 PM – 6 PM. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.

ABOUT AMY SILLMAN

Amy Sillman was born in Detroit in 1955. She is renowned for her painting-based multidisciplinary work, encompassing painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, writing, and site-specific projects, which infuse abstraction with humor, formal, conceptual questions, and a rigorous physicality. Sillman has exhibited her work at institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago; Camden Art Centre, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include the Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams (2022) and “Oh, Clock!”, a solo show alongside curatorial project with the museums’ collections,  at Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2024–25), and currently on view through August at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany. In 2019, she curated “The Shape of Shape” as part as the Artist’s Choice series at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sillman also regularly publishes her writing on art; her book Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings, published by After 8 Books, 2020,  now in its fourth reprint. A long-time educator, Sillman was the co-chair of the MFA Painting program at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, from 1997 to 2013 and a professor at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, from 2015 to 2019. She lives and works in New York.o by

Photo by Calla Kessler