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Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing

$65.00
$65.00

Published for Sam Gilliam’s exhibition, Existed Existing, this book features new paintings, washi papers, and sculptural works by the artist.

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Courtney J. Martin discusses Gilliam’s approach to exhibition-making and the evolution of his practice in her essay “Imagine the Show on the First Day.” In “The Circle With a Whole in the Middle,” poet, cultural theorist, and MacArthur Fellow Fred Moten illuminates Gilliam’s work in dialogue with the aesthetic considerations of abstraction and Blackness. An interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist explores themes including family, music, peers, and poetry.
Publication details

Contributors: Arne Glimcher, C.J.Martin, F.Moten, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Publishers: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2020
Hardcover
10 ¼ × 10 ¼ inches
148 pages: 65 color images
ISBN: 9781948701389
Sam Gilliam. The cover is white with a blue work by the artist.
The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages, it&
The book is open to two pages. A red work by the artist is on the right page and the description is on the left.
The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages. It&
Six copies of Sam Gilliam are stacked on top of each other.

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.

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