{"id":296,"date":"2023-02-10T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/?p=296"},"modified":"2023-02-10T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:59:12","slug":"artist-feature-sam-gilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/artist-feature-sam-gilliam\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Feature: Sam Gilliam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Other abstract artists of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century explored the flatness of the \u201cpicture plane\u201d where paint meets canvas, always retaining the sense of a space belonging to the image that is separate from the viewer. Sam Gilliam rejected this entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-style-default has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cThe surface is no longer the final plane of the work. It is instead the beginning of an advance into the theater of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Sam Gilliam<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilliam\u2019s manipulations of color and materials erase the lines between painting and sculpture. He asserted that \u201cMy content, actually, in this sense, is material. It\u2019s just the relationship of paint to paper.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilliam lived and worked in Washington, D.C., where he passed away last year at the age of 89.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/sam-gilliam-1811\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artist\/sam-gilliam-1811\">Artist Bio Via the Smithsonian <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abstract Art is Political | Artist Sam Gilliam | Louisiana Channel\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciN6ZPDMJV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" data-id=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Gilliam, Looking at the Moon (detail), 1991. Mixed media. Collection of the College of Wooster Art Museum. The Raymond Machesney Art Collection, Gift of the Raymond Machesney \u201959 Trust. 2018.16. Photograph by Marianne Eileen Wardle. \" class=\"wp-image-297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151723-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sam Gilliam, <em>Looking at the Moon<\/em> (detail), 1991. Mixed media. Collection of the College of Wooster Art Museum. The Raymond Machesney Art Collection, Gift of the Raymond Machesney \u201959 Trust. 2018.16. Photograph by Marianne Eileen Wardle.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" data-id=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Gilliam, Looking at the Moon (detail), 1991. Mixed media. Collection of the College of Wooster Art Museum. The Raymond Machesney Art Collection, Gift of the Raymond Machesney \u201959 Trust. 2018.16. Photograph by Marianne Eileen Wardle. \" class=\"wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/02\/20221221_151629-2048x996.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sam Gilliam, <em>Looking at the Moon<\/em> (detail), 1991. Mixed media. Collection of the College of Wooster Art Museum. The Raymond Machesney Art Collection, Gift of the Raymond Machesney \u201959 Trust. 2018.16. Photograph by Marianne Eileen Wardle.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other abstract artists of the 20th century explored the flatness of the \u201cpicture plane\u201d where paint meets canvas, always retaining the sense of a space belonging to the image that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,19,23,29],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-feature","tag-cwam","tag-essential-matter","tag-jazz","tag-sam-gilliam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/museum-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}