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Sam Gilliam

SAM GILLIAM

Juneteenth In Seneca Village Studio Museum in Harlem 15 June 2024 New York
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The Studio Museum in Harlem is thrilled to celebrate Juneteenth with the Central Park Conservancy! Join us in an art-making activity inspired by nature and the artwork of artist Sam Gilliam. Choose from a selection of leaves to create a leaf print and add layers of blue watercolor and oil pastel to build a unique abstract composition. This event is free to attend.

About the Artist

Sam Gilliam was a pioneering American abstractionist whose experiments with color, support, and scale transformed postwar painting and helped redefine abstraction in three dimensions. Associated with the Washington Color School yet always testing its limits, he is best known for his unstretched Drape paintings and later beveled-edge works that blur boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture. His series from the late 1960s onward, including large-scale draped installations and dense late tondos shown at Dia Beacon and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, secured his status as a central figure in American abstraction and Black avant-garde art.

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The Studio Museum in Harlem is a leading institution located at 144 West 125th Street, New York City, renowned for its pioneering role in exhibiting and supporting artists of African descent both locally and internationally.

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Studio Museum in Harlem contemporary art institution in New York United States
Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street, New York, New York, United States
+1 212 864 4500
http://www.studiomuseum.org
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