Deanna Sirlin Explained

Deanna Sirlin
Birth Date:	March 7, 1958
Birth Place:	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.

Early life and education

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.

Exhibitions

2022 Borders of Light and Water, Palazzo Bembo, European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy (as part of the 59th Biennale)
2022 Watermark, Crosland Library, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
2022 Wavelength, Chastain Arts Center, OCA City of Atlanta, Georgia
2020 Strata, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2019 Variation, Alpharetta Arts Center, Alpharetta, Georgia
2018 Translucence, Gallery 72, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, Georgia
2015 Upended, Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein, Worpswede, Germany
2012 Emergency Orange, M55 Gallery Art, New York City, New York
2012 Under and Over: New Collages, The Art Collaborative, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Everything is Optional, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2006 Circling, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK
2006 Red Eye Love, Plus Gallery, Denver Colorado
2006 Notes to Self, Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia
2005 It’s All In My Head, Hartsfield- Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Georgia
2005 Up to My Eyeballs, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Gestures, Antalya Cultur Centre, Antalya. Turkey
2004 New Work, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 New Work, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2002 The Arrangement of Things, Coach Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Punto di Fuga [Vanishing Point], Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
2000 After Painting, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, Texas
1999 Retracings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1999 Retracing Retracing, Resource Forum, Atlanta, Georgia
1999 Into the Blue, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 In Retrospect: Paintings From the Last Decade, Buckhead Plaza, Atlanta
1996 Quaternity, The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1995 Forecasts, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia traveled to Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and the Hudgins Center, Duluth, Georgia
1994 Between Heaven and Earth, The Autrey Mill Project, Alpharetta, Georgia.
1993 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
1988 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1987 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Omni Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Berry College, Rome, Georgia
1986 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Philip Morris Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1986 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
1985 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York City
1985 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Long Island University Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1985 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Foundation Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia
1983 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
1993 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, The Studio School and Gallery, Johnson City, New York
1981 Deanna Sirlin: Paintings, Smedley's Gallery, Ithaca, New York

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.

Writing

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.

Grants and honors

2020 Grant, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
2020 Grant, Georgia Chapter of The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, DC
2019 Artist in Residence, Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
2019 Artist in Residence, City of Alpharetta, Georgia
2019 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
2017 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
2016 United States Department of State, Grant
2016 Rothko Foundation International Painting Symposium Artist in Residence
2012 Mini-Grant, City of Milton, Georgia to make art with the community
2010 Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for Art Writing
2009 Artist in Residence, Padies Chateau, Lempaut, France
2008 Fulton County Arts Council, Small And Emerging Arts Organizations Grant
2002 Artist in Residence, Nürnberg, Germany
2002 Artist in Residence, Kunsthaus Project- Heidenheim, Germany
2002 Artist in Communities Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta
1999 Artist's Grant, CGR Advisors, Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Honoree for Visual Arts by Secretary of State, Georgia
1996 Artist's Grant, Arts Festival, [as part of the 1996 Olympics] Atlanta, Georgia
1994 Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
1994 Artist's Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
1992 Independent Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
1992 Artist Project Grant, BCA, City of Atlanta
1987 Artists’ Space Grant, New York City
1983 Artist Residency Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, New York

Selected collections

Larson-Juhl, Atlanta, Georgia
General Electric
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Shenzhen Institute of Fine Arts, Shenzhen, PR China
Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta Gas Light, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, Georgia
United Airlines, Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.
CSX Corporation, Richmond, Virginia
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, Alabama
THW and Associates, San Diego, California
Penny McCall Foundation, New York, New York
McKinsey and Co., Atlanta, Georgia
Egleston Children's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Citihome Developers, Atlanta, Georgia
Troutman-Sanders, Atlanta, Georgia
Childress Klein, Atlanta, Georgia
Aon Hewitt, Atlanta, Georgia
Colorchrome, Atlanta, Georgia
Casas, Benjamin, and White, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia
Wells Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Georgia Power, Atlanta, Georgia
Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
Herman Miller, Atlanta, Georgia
Pope and Land, Atlanta, Georgia
Cousins Properties, Atlanta, Georgia

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Home. The Art Section. 30 July 2020.
Web site: Deanna Sirlin, Author at Arts ATL. Arts ATL. 30 October 2020.
Book: She's Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue by Deanna Sirlin. artbook. 12 January 2021.
Book Review - Deanna Sirlin seeks out female artists in She's Got What it Takes. Andrew. Alexander. 7 October 2013. Creative Loafing.