Amy Sillman
Valentine’s Day
2000
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Amy Sillman
Valentine’s Day
2000
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 182.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased in Honor of Elaine B. Snyder with funds contributed by her Family and Friends
Object Number
2001.348
Amy Sillman’s Valentine’s Day combines elements of representation and abstraction, simultaneously referencing the human body and our relationships to land. A cross-section of the earth depicts underground scenes of machinery, perhaps the kind used for oil and mineral extraction. In the center of this landscape, a pink uterus-like form suggests an analogy between the land and the maternal body, evoking cycles of regeneration and birth, possibly under threat.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 2001; the artist through gallery
Landscape Confection
Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection
Contemporary Wing Rotations 2025
Gregg, Gail. 2001. 'Streams of Consciousness,' ARTNews, April 2001: 120-23.
Inscribed: Recto: no signature; Verso: upper right on canvas edge: A sillman 01; upper right: Amy Sillman 2001 / 'Valentine's Day'; upside down on center stratcher bar: Sillman 705 (illegible) / 72 x 60
