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Deanna Sirlin | |
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Born | March 7, 1958 Brooklyn, New York |
Nationality | American |
Education | Brooklyn Museum Art School State University of New York at Albany Queens College City University of New York |
Known for | included in the High Museum of Arts permanent collection |
Style | Contemporary |
Deanna Sirlin (born March 7, 1958) is an American contemporary artist best known for her large-scale installations and paintings. Sirlin's art has been shown all over the world and includes massive installations that dominate entire buildings in Venice, Italy, Atlanta, Georgia, London, England, Antalya, Turkey, New Orleans, Louisiana and Evora,Portugal.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sirlin attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School and earned a BA in Art from the State University of New York at Albany (1978). While at SUNY, Sirlin studied painting under Mark Greenwald and art history with Ann Sutherland Harris. Sirlin earned an MFA in Painting from Queens College, City University of New York (1980), where she studied under artists Gabriel Laderman, Charles Cajori, Benny Andrews, and Clinton Hill, and art critic Robert Pincus-Witten.
Sirlin is perhaps best known for her pivotal installation "Retracings," which encompassed virtually the entire glass front of Atlanta's High Museum of Art in 1999. She is included in the High Museum of Arts permanent collection.
Sirlin is the editor-in-chief of The Art Section, an online arts and culture journal that has been publishing since 2007. [1] She wrote for ART PAPERS magazine between 1993 and 2007. She was the weekly art critic for Creative Loafing in 2010. She has written art reviews for Arts ATL since 2017. [2] Her book "She's Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue" was published by Charta Books in 2013. [3] The book was reviewed by Andrew Alexander for Creative Loafing magazine. [4] Sirlin received a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for Art Writing in 2010 mentored under Hayden Herrera.
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