Print Meets Paint 'Amy Sillman: Alternate Side' at Dia Bridgehampton

Dia Art Foundation presents “Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32),” a newly commissioned, site-specific installation at Dia Bridgehampton. On view from June 28, through June 2026, the yearlong exhibition features work created during Sillman’s 2024–25 residency at New York’s Two Palms print studio and transforms Dia’s ground-floor gallery into an immersive, process-driven environment.

The exhibition features a hybrid wall painting — painted and screenprinted directly onto the gallery walls — layered with 32 unique framed screenprints. The installation blurs the boundaries between printmaking, drawing and painting, and reflects Sillman’s dynamic approach to media, movement between abstraction and figuration, and interest in chance, repetition, and improvisation.

“Amy Sillman’s transformation of the gallery into a space of site-responsive experimentation continues Dia’s tradition of supporting artists who challenge conventions of medium specificity and exhibition making,” said Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director.

Known for her iterative and improvisational style, Sillman treats the gallery walls as both site and surface, combining a painterly sensibility with a printmaker’s discipline. Each monotype in the exhibition, created on surplus handmade paper from the 19th and early 20th centuries, responds to the forms and vocabulary used in the surrounding mural.

The installation is deeply responsive to Dia Bridgehampton’s architecture and natural light, with particular inspiration drawn from the permanent Dan Flavin light installation on the second floor. As light shifts throughout the day and seasons, viewers experience an evolving interplay between color, shadow, and space, reinforcing the work’s themes of flux and transformation.

“Sillman has described drawing as offering the kind of clarity found in the filament of a light bulb,” said Jordan Carter, curator and co–department head at Dia. “It is a fitting metaphor for Dia Bridgehampton, which hosts Flavin’s fluorescent-light sculptures and supports unexpected cross-media dialogue.”

Amy Sillman, born in Detroit in 1955, is known for her multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, zines, animation and writing. Her work is held in major museum collections and has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and internationally. Her book ‘Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings’ is in its fourth printing. Sillman lives and works in New York.

The exhibition is curated by Jordan Carter and Emily Markert, curatorial associate. It builds on Dia’s history of presenting artists who extend and reframe the traditions of Minimal and Conceptual art. Established in 1983, Dia Bridgehampton houses a permanent installation by Dan Flavin and a rotating series of exhibitions by artists with ties to Long Island. Originally envisioned by Flavin as both gallery and print studio, the site continues to honor that legacy through experimental projects like Sillman’s.

Dia Bridgehampton is at 23 Corwith Avenue in Bridgehampton. Admission is free. For more information, visit diaart.org.