Another Faux Pas with Amy Sillman

Pratt Fine Arts is delighted to welcome Amy Sillman to our MFA studios at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Please join us for a conversation with Amy Sillman and James Hannaham.

Amy Sillman (b.1955, Detroit, Michigan) has lived in NYC since the mid-1970s. Sillman’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1990s at institutions and galleries in North America and Europe, and she is best known for her intense inquiry into painting and its histories, and simultaneously her active engagement with areas that lie adjacent to painting itself, especially her do-it-yourself animations, large-scale drawing installations, and curatorial projects. Sillman also regularly publishes her writing on art. Her book Faux Pas, published by After 8 Books in Paris, is in its fourth reprint since its initial publication in 2020. Sillman's most recent solo exhibition is entitled ”Oh, Clock!” Originally mounted at the KunstMuseum Bern, in Switzerland, the show of paintings, drawings, prints and videos traveled to the Museum Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany, along with a curated intervention/exhibition of each institution's own collection. An upcoming show in June, 2025 at the Dia Bridgehampton will investigate the relationship between printmaking process and the architecture of the room at Dia. A long-time educator, Sillman served as co-chair of Bard MFA's Painting Department for 12 years, before becoming a Professor at Städelschule in Frankfurt from 2014-2019. She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery in NYC.

James Hannaham is a writer, a visual artist, or both. His novel Delicious Foods won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book. He has shown primarily text-based work at The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Open Source Gallery, and won Best in Show at Main Street Arts’ 2020 exhibit Biblio Spectaculum. In 2021 he released Pilot Impostor, a multigenre book inspired by an anthology of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry. His third novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, won the Ferro-Grumley Award from the Publishing Triangle, a second Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2022, an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and also a New York Times Notable Book. He co-founded the performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them until 2002. His arts criticism used to appear regularly in the Village Voice, and still does occasionally in 4Columns. He holds a BA in Art from Yale and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. In 2023 he won a Guggenheim fellowship.

You will receive a digital QR pass via email that will appear in your inbox as: DOCK 72 Visitor Check-in Tuesday March 25, 2025 from [email protected]. Please check your SPAM folder if you cannot locate it. NO PASS = NO ACCESS. This pass will be good for the date of the event only.

You will need to save your email to access the building and the event.

Please register each person attending the event with their individual email, so that they receive their own unique QR pass.

FINDING DOCK 72-

Dock 72 is here: 1 Dock 72 Wy, Brooklyn, NY 11205

You will first use your pass to enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard at whichever gate is convenient. You can come by taxi (showing your pass to the guard to enter) but if you drive, you will need to park OUTSIDE the Navy Yard and walk in. There is NO parking at Dock 72.

NOTE: While there is no on-site parking; taxi/ride share drop-off is permitted. Additionally, the building is situated next to the NYC Ferry, Citibike, and there are shuttles available on-site to and from MTA subways stops. For more info, please visit

- When you arrive at Dock 72, enter the Lobby and then use your pass at ELEVATOR BANK C, which is the last elevator bank right at the end of the lobby (past the lobby cafe, near the exit door at the very end)- At the elevator bank, select Floor 3 on the digital pad which will then indicate which elevator to take.

IMPORTANT ACCESS INFORMATION
Access to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Dock 72 is restricted ONLY to those with an ID card or a visitor pass. All who RSVP here will receive an email with information on how to get their Visitor QR Code Pass, which will be issued the morning of the event.

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