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The show will feature approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by prominent American artists including Milton Avery, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Ed Paschke, Faith Ringgold, Edward Ruscha and Frank Stella. Reverberations, curated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy (128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia), opens on June 28 and will continue through September 21. (Saint Louis Front Page)
U.S. Census Bureau Black History Month Daily Feature for February 2 Feb 3, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily Black History Month 2008 "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2: SAM GILLIAM Profile America for the second day of Black History Month. Sam Gilliam is recognized internationally as the foremost contemporary African-American artist, whose paintings reflect the school of art known as color field painting. (PR Newswire)
Museum a real attraction: Upgraded facility drawing acquisitions Oct 29, 2007
Mississippi Museum of Art deputy director Dan Piersol (left) and associate preparator Melvin Johnson hang a piece titled Fan Number One by Mississippi native Sam Gilliam in the museum's storage area. The artwork consists of a paper base, a layer of water color paint, acrylic paint and acrylic polymer. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Arts Council hosts Invitational Exhibit Jun 16, 2007
She has curated exhibitions of works by Mississippi natives Sam Gilliam and William Dunlap, published an article on tabloid photographs of Princess Diana in the National Women's Studies Association Journal and written articles for the forthcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia. e are very glad to have Jill Chancey to serve as juror this year, Lewis said. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
New ways to shape his creative world Jun 2, 2007
Most visitors to the Marsha Mateyka Gallery's Sam Gilliam "New Work" exhibit will remember the artist's intensely emotional 2005 retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in which he juxtaposed poured brilliant color with rectilinear geometric shapes. Many thought Mr. Gilliam wouldn't be able to come up with more artistic inventions, but he has here. (Washington Times)
Symbol Of Divide Unifies Past, Future May 4, 2007
" More than 400 sections of the wall, which came down in 1989, will arrive in the area this summer via 10 tractor-trailer trucks and will be transformed into works of art. Ten of the 3-foot-by-8-foot concrete sections of the Berlin Wall will be cut in half, painted by 20 world-renowned artists and be part of the "Beyond the Wall" traveling exhibit. It will open in the Tampa Bay area in February 2008 and will end in Washington, D.C., in November 2009, in time for the 20th anniversary of the fall... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Alternative space for creativity (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Mar 31, 2007
Washington artists often lament the lack of gallery exhibiting opportunities, but sometimes "alternative spaces" come to the rescue -- as with the Washington DC Jewish Community Center's "5+5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch." "Here in Washington, artists need all the help they can get," senior artist Sam Gilliam says of the show ... Former Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden curator Phyllis Rosenzweig -- who worked with an advisory committee -- initially chose well-known sculptor... (Washington Times)
Viking, Fred Carl receive awards for arts patronage Feb 17, 2007
Excellence - Sam Gilliam of Tupelo. Heritage Award - Sam Carr of Dundee; and. (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
Governor presents special arts awards Feb 17, 2007
Internationally recognized abstract artist and Tupelo native Sam Gilliam (Artistic Excellence) ... The honorees were rock'n'roll pioneer Bo Diddley, Delta blues drummer Sam Carr, abstract artist Sam Gilliam, arts patron Viking Range Corp. and Nora Davis Magnet School in Laurel. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Tupelo still informs Gilliam's work Jan 20, 2007
Tupelo memories have stayed with artist Sam Gilliam, although he left town some 65 years ago. He recalls a time of discovery, when he climbed to the top of his parents' house to find new possibilities. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
* For black abstract artists, history is the present Apr 20, 2006
So, while a few figures like Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam and Al Loving (1935-2005) gained visibility, abstraction by African-Americans as a phenomenon faded from view, and its invisibility has persisted. The Guggen-heim Museum's 1996 survey, Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, included no artists of color. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
