This is Sam Gilliam’s “One Thunder”, from a show at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on abstraction by Black artists ­– about as vexed a subject as you could ask for.

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. – (Marvin Joseph-The Washington Post-Getty Images) *(CNN) — Sam Gilliam, the ...

Sam Gilliam, an artist with a big impact in D.C., has died at the age of 88. Gilliam was one of the artists associated with the Washington Color School, which was a movement initiated in D.C. in ...

Gilliam reintroduced the static quadrangle format in the mid-1970s. The multicolored and textured Baptistry Senior II is a square containing a circle that's been quartered, collaged and rejoined ...

Sam Gilliam was my art teacher when I was a sophomore at McKinley Technical High School in 1963. One day, for no apparent reason that this then-teenager could imagine, he began telling us that if ...

Gilliam first garnered attention in the mid-1960s for his beveled-edge and drape paintings, which sought to push the boundaries of what a painting could be. He was the first African American ...

This spring, rising art star Rashid Johnson pays homage to the colorful, defiantly abstract paintings of 79-year-old Sam Gilliam by curating an exhibition devoted to Gilliam's early works.

Sam Gilliam, the renowned painter best known for his association with the Washington Color School, will take over the second floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in spring 2022. The show will be the first ...

First, a confession: before I visited this exhibition I had never heard of Sam Gilliam. Perhaps my focus is too narrowly confined to Ireland and our closest European neighbours, but the American ...

Sam Gilliam, the groundbreaking abstract artist known for his work with draped canvas, died Saturday at 88, the galleries that represented him confirmed in a joint statement on Monday.