Sunday afternoon art: Amy Sillman at Camden Arts Centre

My few photos of Amy Sillman's show at Camden Arts Centre (till 6 January) first appeared on instagram. In a spirit of what we used to think of as laziness but can now rename "cross-platform continuity", I'm simply copying over what I posted there.

Rebus for Camden, 2107-18; acrylic, ink, gouache and silkscreen
works on paper; dimensions variable (details below)

Amy Sillman at #camdenartscentre, is using the "outmoded forms" of #painting, #printing, #drawing as "a commentary on painting itself as a form of communication". So - processes and composition, rather than thematic meaning? The depth and scope of the work ranges from the political and social to the emotional and psychological, says the #exhibition leaflet. 

SK35-38, 2017; acrylic, ink, and silkscreen on paper, framed; 102x66cm each

My selection of images ignores the large, layered canvases in favour of the big sheets of paper, variously grouped, and some closeups of the complex layering that is possible on paper but possibly less effective on cloth (which is what canvas is, after all). 

Two videos and some of her zines are also part of the exhibition. 

For me, a visit to the cafe is part of the experience: lovely marble cake (image not available). 

And, on my walk home, this lovely street scene of Sunday afternoon in the lower reaches of Hampstead.... ah, "village London"...

I very nearly bought a raincoat in the shop on the corner, then walked down that road, past Keats House and, round another corner, via Daunt Books, across the lower reaches of the Heath - the air very clear and the shadows very long, it was about 5pm by then - to Gospel Oak to catch the train. Home.

Another Sunday, blessed by sunshine. Soon it will be November - "No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon" oh dear, so very gloomy!