Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years

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Author: Gilliam, SamThis title presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes a nd bevelled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and fold-outs as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam’s dynamic, vibrant compositions.DC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Colour Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon. ISBN 9781948701631. Pace Publishing/David Kordansky Gallery. pb. 94 pages. 78 colour ills. 26 x 24.1 cm.available Show more