Amy Sillman

Valentine’s Day

2001

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Amy Sillman

Valentine’s Day

2001

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

Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, "Amy Sillman," October 4, 2013 - January 05, 2014 and traveling to The Center of Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, June 21, 2014 - September 21,2014, exh. cat. p. 48, ill. p.35.

"Wexner Center for the Arts, "Landscape Confection," January 30, 2005 - April 27, 2005; Tour to Contemporary Museum of Art, Houston, July 23, 2005 - September 18, 2005; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Feburary 5 - May 7, 2006.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Gallery 11, February 26 - June 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