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© Sam Gilliam
Fishing Well
199794 x 48 1/2 in. (238.8 x 123.2 cm)
Sam Gilliam
United States
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Acrylic on birch
Credit Line:
Gift of Sam Gilliam
Accession Number:
2014.50
Location: Not currently on view
Washington D.C.-based Sam Gilliam established himself as a major artist in 1968 when he stopped using wooden stretchers to support his paintings and allowed his vivid rushes of color-stained canvas to hang, billow, and swing through space like drapery. Since that time Gilliam has gone on to create work in an astounding variety of styles while always remaining true to a fundamental disregard for the boundaries that have traditionally separated painting, sculpture, and architecture.
In the early 1990s Gilliam adopted birch plywood as a support surface for his paintings, a practice he continues to the present day. In these works Gilliam achieves an architectural physicality by using overtly sculptural material—wood and its relief properties. The surface of Fishing Well is poured acrylic paint. The images, textures, and suggestion of depth derive from the way the artist pushed and pulled the acrylic paint across the wood surface.
Gallery label text, [Summer 2015]
In the early 1990s Gilliam adopted birch plywood as a support surface for his paintings, a practice he continues to the present day. In these works Gilliam achieves an architectural physicality by using overtly sculptural material—wood and its relief properties. The surface of Fishing Well is poured acrylic paint. The images, textures, and suggestion of depth derive from the way the artist pushed and pulled the acrylic paint across the wood surface.
Gallery label text, [Summer 2015]
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Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Sam Gilliam: Recent Paintings 2011-2012. , 2012?.
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