miami 2015
untitled art fair
solo booth / inga gallery
“Silverstein’s process is guided by ‘whatever feels necessary;’ massive sheets of canvas are painted, cut, dragged, pinned, stained, crawled over, glued, layered, and painted again. Silverstein's preference for on-the-spot responsiveness rather than preconception, improvisational ‘allowing,’ over planned composition, and primitive expression over slick industrial production, recall the philosophical spirit of abstract expressionism and action painting.
“The works are titled with the date of their completion, emphasizing what the critic Harold Rosenberg said of abstract expressionism, that ‘what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.’ The making of these works is not a process separate from life, but a ‘happening’ of life itself.”
—Press release for solo exhibition with Inga Gallery at the Untitled Art Fair for Art Basel Week, Miami, 2015
