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Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam (b. 1933, Tupelo, Mississippi) is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.

For his debut exhibitions at Pace Gallery in Seoul and Hong Kong, the colourfield artist presents a suite of new paintings that continues his investigations into colour and form

BY Sam Gilliam AND Terence Trouillot |