WELCOMES YOU
TO THE SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL 2009
PLEASE ATTEND THIS SPECIAL EVENT
AN AFTERNOON ARTIST TALK
WITH SAM GILLIAM
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
1:00 P.M.
CLT 102
Born in Tupelo in 1933, Sam Gilliam is internationally-recognized for his colorful, pioneering abstract painting. He has been identified as one of the most significant living artists working today. Soon after earning a Master of Arts degree from the University of Louisville, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he launched his professional career in 1963 with a solo exhibition of expressive figural paintings at the Adams Morgan Gallery. By 1967, the artist had begun applying a fresh, creative approach to the traditional medium of watercolor by folding, creasing and manipulating color-saturated sheets of paper. The resulting lines gave compositional structure that played off the amorphous pools of lush pigment. Gilliam emphatically found his own voice and niche in art history in 1968, when he took the unprecedented step of exhibiting his richly-hued canvases not on traditional wooden stretcher bars, but rather draped and suspended from gallery walls and ceilings. Gilliam has continued throughout his brilliant career to defy categorization as an artist, exploring shaped canvases, three-dimensional painted wall constructions and hinged-panel paintings on birch plywood. A leading international figure in the visual arts, native son Sam Gilliam is a splendid exemplar of Mississippi’s substantial contributions to American art.
For more information on this artist please follow these links
Google: Sam Gilliam
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