Amy Sillman, Untitled, 2009, Charcoal, and watercolor on paper
33 drawings: 22.5 x 15.125 inches each.

These works show figurative drawing’s potential to act as more than representation. The drawings are derived from a process of observing couples in intimate situations, re-drawing them from memory, and finally transforming them into abstract compositions. In the process, the original, ephemeral moment from which the drawings were created is lost; instead, that directness is reinstated through the physicality of the gesture and the heaviness and crudeness of the charcoal lines which ‘dance’ across the surface. We do not only see the drawings, we experience them bodily, too.