Tuesday, November 30, 2010

GENESIS: Sam Gilliam / November 30, 1933


Sam Gilliam, Composed (formerly Dark As I Am), 1968-74, acrylic, clothing, backpack, painter's tools, wooden closet pole, all on wood door, 87x47x3.5 inches. Collection of the artist's daughters. Photo: Mark Gulezian/QuickSilver.

Sam Gilliam, Autumn Surf, installation view of Works In Spaces at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1973, San Francisco Chronicle. Photo: Art Frisch.

"Sam Gilliam's concentrated focus on painting and his belief that, as a discipline made up of objects it is essentially no different from sculpture, radically distinguishes him from his contemporaries." -- Jonathan Binstock

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