Sam Gilliam | Constructions in Color, 1978–1981
September 13th - October 11th, 2025
David Kordansky
(Via David Kordansky) During his long and multi-phased career, Gilliam continually pushed the potential of painting as a vehicle for expression and experimentation. With each body of work, he reassessed and rearticulated past achievements as he searched for new possibilities. At times, this creative restlessness gave rise to ever more sweeping and ambitious statements; at others, Gilliam privileged concision, generating more condensed and more elegant—if no less startling—answers to the formal and poetic questions at the heart of his practice.