For the past thirty years Sills has been noted for her life size
cutout figures in painted birch plywood portraying famous characters from art history, creating over 100 of them.
Not exact matches
Her New Museum exhibition brings together a selection of recent
cutout paper
figures, mixed - media works on paper, collaged
paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale
painted sailcloth, and hand -
painted texts on the gallery walls.
Her work — which includes portraits of enslaved people
painted on jugs, plates, newspapers, and other domestic objects, as well as full - size
cutouts of
figures in colorful historical costumes — not only examines the histories of colonialism and the slave trade, but also the way their effects continue to play out
in society today.
Her New Museum exhibition brings together a selection of recent
cutout paper
figures, mixed - media works on paper, collaged
paintings in beehive frames, large - scale
painted sailcloth, and hand -
painted texts...