Sam Gilliam American, 1933-2022

“Only when making the work can I determine the many languages that form the planes on which it is to exist. Like abstract phrases the many intentions of the work (before an audience) passes through an intuitive sieve… The work was not planned, there are ploys, however, to the way it was laid out and then put together.”
-Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam is an African-American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist.