Sam Gilliam

Internationally renowned artist Sam Gilliam first gained national prominence in the late 1960s with the debut of his dramatically innovative drape paintings. These large, unstretched canvases, saturated with color, were hung from walls and ceilings and challenged long-held assumptions about the traditional division between painting and sculpture. Gilliam's forays into printmaking have been equally exploratory, and in recent years he has actively produced mixed media prints with richly textured paper relief and collage elements. Sam Gilliam: Recent Printswill feature a range of prints from the late 1990s up to the present, including recent works printed on sheets of wood veneer. Gilliam has stated that the new works are not so much prints "as objects for the wall."

Sam Gilliam will be speaking about his work in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium on April 19 at 1:00 p.m. His visit to campus coincides with a performance of The Washington Ballet/Sweet Honey in the Rock/Sam Gilliam Projectat the Center for the Performing Arts, a piece which premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in early 2002.

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Sam Gilliam: Recent Prints