Deanna Sirlin

Deanna Sirlin
High Museum Of Art "Retracings"
Born1958 (age 67–68)
Brooklyn, New York
EducationBrooklyn Museum Art School
State University of New York at Albany
Queens College
City University of New York
Known forincluded in the High Museum of Arts permanent collection
StyleContemporary
Deanna Sirlin: Strata at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation in Évora, Portugal
Sirlin: STRATA at the entrance to the Centro de Arte e Cultura - Fundação Eugénio de Almeida in Évora, Portugal.
Deanna Sirlin, The Distance Between, 2019, 50 x 30 feet, Atlanta, Georgia
Venice, Italy 2001

Deanna Sirlin (born 1958)[1] is an American contemporary artist best known for her large-scale installations and paintings.

Education

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sirlin earned a BA in Art from the State University of New York at Albany (1978). Sirlin earned an MFA in Painting from Queens College, City University of New York (1980).[2]

Installations

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.[1]

Writing

Sirlin is the editor-in-chief of The Art Section, an online arts and culture journal that has been publishing since 2007.[3] 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.[4] Her book "She's Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue" was published by Charta Books in 2013.[5] The book was reviewed by Andrew Alexander for Creative Loafing magazine.[6] Sirlin received a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for Art Writing in 2010 mentored under Hayden Herrera.

References

  1. 1 2 "Retracings". High Museum of Art. Retrieved July 17, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Sirlin, Deanna". MOCA GA. Retrieved July 17, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Home". The Art Section. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Deanna Sirlin, Author at Arts ATL". Arts ATL. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ She's Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue by Deanna Sirlin. Retrieved January 12, 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ Alexander, Andrew (October 7, 2013). "Book Review - Deanna Sirlin seeks out female artists in She's Got What it Takes". Creative Loafing.
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