Talk:Sam Gilliam/to do
Appearance
- Additions
- Addl citations beyond Binstock for pre-1970
- Addl one-off biographical details
- Involvement in founding of DC Arts Center and the Washington Project for the Arts
- (?) Involvement in the protests surrounding the 1979 Artists Space exhibition by Donald Newman (this probably deserves its own article given its significance in the art world at the time)
- Addl teaching positions: UMD (82-85) & Carnegie Mellon (85-89)
- 20s: final series of late works (drapes, heavy impasto slices, watercolors, and tondos) (might not be necessary, but he sped up his production speed super intensely at the end and made a bunch of new works in previous styles)
mid-80s-early 90s: Stylistic transition from constructions with canvas (Chasers and "quilted" paintings) to constructions with painted and printed metal, wood, plastic --> transition to Slatts00s Slatts -> geometric paintings (Josef Albers-inspired), retrospective '05Kreeger '98 + moving to new ways of making his metal/wood/plastic constructions (digital imaging, site-specific references to their placement)Custom Road SlideAhab series (exploring white as a color, pre-White paintings)Chasers series (final section in 70s) --> transition to quilted paintingsearly 90s drop-off in media attention --> quoted analysis/criticism about both the factual aspect of the decline (steady # of solo shows outside of major art cities + lots of commissions - but significantly fewer "blockbuster" shows and media coverage, almost no group shows, etc.) and the narrative around/reasons for the decline (theories about post-black/conceptual art's rise, theories about the effects of a claimed overdetermination of the 80s narrative on his work that centered on its connections to African/African-American visual vernaculars, etc.)90s commissions (public & at least one notable private),post-Kordansky resurgence details - venice, NMAAHC, lots of notice/demand, plus quoted analysis on the meaning/reason- pace gallery (speed of new shows, details of show w/ Williams/Edwards)
covid + hirshhorn
- Edits/trimming/other
fully refactor notable works in pub. coll.- cut down on prose length and prep for individ. sections to be split (drapes, etc.)
- trim references to individ. works, re-style & remove date references
- Additional articles/splits
BinstockDrape paintings, move most major drape installations here with more in-depth centralized analysis about their definition/composition/development/themes- Possibly one individual article for the most notable Drape (probably Seahorses and/or Autumn Surf, a surviving major early drape like A and the Carpenter, or Yves Klein Blue)
- Black Paintings (?)
- Dark as I Am (Composed) (?)
- Slice paintings (?)
- or the specific Martin Luther King series (?)
- Public art by (everywhere I turn I'm finding another public sculpture in another random local government building, this needs its own page)
Works by(still ongoing)