The Kennedy Center Sam Gilliam’s Carousel Light Depth (1969) at the Kennedy Center. Photo courtesy of the Kennedy Center. Gilliam’s draped canvas painting, “Carousel Light Depth,” hangs on the Peace ...

London’s Tate Modern featured Gilliam’s 1970 work, “Carousel Change,” in an exhibit titled “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in 2017. “It is no accident that Sam’s ...

Installation view of “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle” at the Hirshhorn ... Gilliam onto the international stage in 1969, check out “Carousel Light Depth” (1969) — a suspended canvas covered ...

The Sam Gilliam Foundation selected Dia as their ... The long-term display featuredtwo drape paintings, both titled Carousel II (1968), installed together by Gilliam to form Double Merge ...

If you were a Washington, DC public school student in the early 1960s, your art teacher might have been Alma Thomas. . . or Sam Gilliam. Both represent a tradition of artist-art educators in DC public ...

By Ted Loos When the painter Sam Gilliam died last weekend at age 88, he left behind pioneering artworks, particularly his draped canvases stained with blooms of color that forever changed the way ...

Sam Gilliam, a Washington artist who helped redefine abstract painting by liberating canvas from its traditional framework and shaking it loose in lavish, paint-spattered folds cascading from ...

Today, Johns Hopkins University and the Sam Gilliam Foundation announced the launch of the new Sam Gilliam Lecture Series, to be hosted at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, ...

London’s Tate Modern featured Gilliam’s 1970 work, “Carousel Change,” in an exhibit titled “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in 2017. “It is no accident that Sam’s ...

London’s Tate Modern featured Gilliam’s 1970 work, “Carousel Change,” in an exhibit titled “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in 2017. “It is no accident that Sam’s ...