Tag: Sam Gilliam

  • With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985

    With almost 100 works on show, this exhibition is outstanding for the way in which it takes the pattern and decoration movement seriously as an object of historical inquiry

  • Modal Painting

    Through the works of Frank Bowling, John Hoyland, Reginald Sylvester II, John Golding and Sam Gilliam, this small group show explores the visceral, emotional, and physical side of their process and the power of their abstract painting

  • The Bunker Artspace – Art as autobiography

    Given a test run last autumn and reopening on 2 December, The Bunker, a private venue fronting the collection of curator-collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, is a trifecta of firsts; first to give Palm Beach a serious art scene; first to…

  • Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection

    A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives

  • Impulse

    Art critic Clement Greenberg coined the term ‘post-painterly abstraction’ to describe the work of the five artists in this exhibition – Morris Louis, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Frank Bowling and Kenneth Noland – yet, until recently, many of them haven’t…

  • Colour is

    This group exhibition, including work by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Anthony Caro and Hélio Oiticica, provides an interesting survey of 1960s abstract art and its legacies, and suggests a few intriguing connections