NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co presents an exhibition of new works by Amy Sillman titled Transformer (…or, how many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?) on view through May 15, 2010. Sillman’s show features a range of new work across mediums, including large and mid-scale paintings, two different suites of drawings, and a new edition of her one-dollar ’zine “The O-G.” The show begins with a simple drawing of a lightbulb. The lightbulb transforms into a flashlight, which in turn becomes a medium for self-reflexive investigation. The lightbulb is thus a pivotal image for illumination, reflection, transformation, the comic, and obsolescence – a thematic stand-in for the conditions of painting itself. In all of her new work, Sillman continues to undertake a full-scale painterly negotiation between forms of corporeality and processes of thought. Sillman