The Washington, D.C.-based painter became famous for his Drape works — vibrantly painted pieces of fabric that he hung by clips and could never be presented the same way twice.
, which had represented him since 2012. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Miss., in 1933 as the seventh child of eight to a father who worked on the railroad and a homemaking mother. He attended the University of Louisville for both bachelor's and master's degrees, but in 1962 moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived and had his studio for the rest of his life. He became one of the leading artists of the Washington Color School — a 1950s movement that emphasized large fields of color.
He was very interested in freeing his paintings from the boundaries of canvases and frames. Instead, in his Drape works of the 1960s, he took unstretched canvases and hung them from ceilings or pinned them in great waterfalls to walls. Each time his work — part painting, part sculpture — was installed in an exhibition, it hung differently, never the same way twice.
During the late 1970s, he thickly painted canvases, and then cut out and rearranged geometric shapes. The results evoked both African American quilts and the improvisations of the jazz music he loved.Sam Gilliam's"Seahorses," 1975, installed outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.by the then-new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
His work is represented in the collections of some of the world's most celebrated museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tate Modern in London; and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.The art installation"Change" of Sam Gilliam can be seen in Cologne, Germany, 22 June 2017.is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., through Sept.
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