Amy Sillman
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Amy Sillman is an American artist who explores the many different types of practices. I was drawn to this piece more of how she uses the layers and the different techniques on them. You can see the different methods/materials she used to create this such as watercolour paint(?), a pen.
Gemma Smith
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Gemma Smith is an Australian painter and sculptor who works in many layers. In most of her artwork recently, she hides a painting beneath another painting. The process of Gemma’s work is to decrease or increase; she will look at the painting and wonder if she will add more paint or remove/strip paint off, this is how she builds her layers which I found quite interesting to try.
Rita Ackermann
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Rita Ackermann piqued my interest the most and was inspiring for this brief. The meaning behind Rita Ackerman’s work is her abstract paintings addressing the issues about feminism. I thought how her work was interesting since I couldn’t pin out what the painting was at first, but after researching I could see the outline of the female figure with the different shades of pink.