Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman: "I think I always was interested in the thing that you weren't supposed to be interested in. But isn't everyone?"

Ian Berry: "I don't think so. I think a lot of people are driven by trying to reach some sort kind of suburban ideal, or the desire to be like their own image of success. Some people want precisely not to be against. They would rather their lawn looked just like their neighbor's, or that they had the same shoes as their friend."

AS: "I suppose I am fueled by that too- everyone wants not to look ugly. We want to wear shoes that someone else says are cool or have a good haircut that looks sexy or whatever. But then at the same time, everyone is trying to be subversive. The only thing that makes an artist different is that an artist has an object that stands in for her and speaks to that subversion articulately."

Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular
The Francis Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2008