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Sam Gilliam (born November 30, 1933) is a color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam, an African American, is associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gilliam's paintings and drawings from graduate school in the late 1950s until his first one man exhibition in Washington in 1963 were primarily figural abstractions employing bold, dark colors of a brooding nature reminiscent of the works of German Expressionist Emil Nolde.
Following his death, several galleries and museums staged posthumous exhibitions of his work, including: Late Paintings, which opened at Pace's London gallery in 2022; RECOLLECT: Sam Gilliam, which opened at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in 2023; and The Last Five Years, a two-part exhibition staged at Pace's New York gallery in 2023 ...
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Following early experiments in color and form, Gilliam became best known for his Drape paintings, first developed in the late 60s and widely exhibited across the United States and internationally over the following decade.
Jun 27, 2022 · The influential Black abstract painter and sculptural artist Sam Gilliam passed away on June 25th. Artsy remembers his iconic career through five key works.
Liberating the canvas from its stretcher, straddling the wall and three dimensions in space, Gilliam explored the material and chromatic possibilities of a traditional painting support in Carousel State.
Jun 27, 2022 · Abstract artist Sam Gilliam (November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was most widely known for the large color-stained canvases he draped and suspended from walls and ceilings during the 1960s and 1970s. Gilliam grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1962.
Modern and Contemporary Art. Whirlirama. Sam Gilliam American. 1970. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 921. Based in Washington, D.C., Gilliam was long at the forefront of developments in abstract painting.
Phase conjures the improvisation and experimentation found in Gilliam’s monumental color-stained canvases known as the drape paintings, yet because it is a screenprint, each color, mark, and gesture had to be carefully planned and a strict order followed in its creation.
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