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Late works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color workDC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Color Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon.Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes and beveled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and foldouts as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam's dynamic, vibrant compositions.

The latest paintings and sculptures from acclaimed color-field veteran Sam GilliamIncluding paintings, sculpture and works on paper, this book documents new works by DC-based color-field painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933). A new interview with the artist brings insight into his life and practice, as well as the experience of making this body of work, which represents an aesthetic shift from Gilliam's canonical "drape" paintings. Published for the artist's inaugural 2020 exhibition at Pace Gallery, in advance of the artist's solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in spring 2022--which will be Gilliam's first retrospective in the US in over 15 years--the book also includes new scholarship by Courtney J. Martin and Fred Moten.