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Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields

IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Edited by Sara Muthi. Foreword by Annie Fletcher. Introduction by Mary Cremin, Seán Kissane. Text by John Beardsley. Interview by Thelma Golden. Photographs by Mark Gulezian, Fredrik Nilsen, Lee Thompson.

Dedicated to Gilliam's late-career sewn and collaged fabric works, this colorful catalog embraces the artist's restless creativity and visionary approach to abstraction

Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 108 pgs / 55 color. | 8/26/2025 | Awaiting stock
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Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years

PACE PUBLISHING/DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY
Text by Lowery Stokes Sims.

Late works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color work

Pbk, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 94 pgs / 78 color. | 11/14/2023 | In stock
$45.00


Sam Gilliam

PACE PUBLISHING
Text by Courtney J. Martin, Fred Moten. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The latest paintings and sculptures from acclaimed color-field veteran Sam Gilliam

Hbk, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color. | 1/26/2021 | Out of stock
$65.00


  

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Sam Gilliam: The Music of Color

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Jonathan P. Binstock, Josef Helfenstein. Text by Lynette Yiadiom Boakye, Larne Abse Gogarty, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Squirru.

Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 81 color / 7 bw. | 11/20/2018 | Not available
$45.00


Sam Gilliam: Sewing FieldsSam Gilliam: Sewing Fields

Published by Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by Sara Muthi. Foreword by Annie Fletcher. Introduction by Mary Cremin, Seán Kissane. Text by John Beardsley. Interview by Thelma Golden. Photographs by Mark Gulezian, Fredrik Nilsen, Lee Thompson.

A pioneering artist who redefined the boundaries of painting, Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) transformed the medium with his radical approach to color, material and space. Sewing Fields focuses on a lesser-known yet crucial period in Gilliam's later career: that of his sewn and collaged works. His residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 1993 reshaped his artistic practice. Far from his Washington, DC, studio, Gilliam embraced new materials, working with pre-stained fabrics that he shipped to Ireland, cutting and layering them into sculptural compositions. A collaboration with a local dressmaker further expanded his process, reinforcing his innovative fusion of painting and textile techniques. Sewing Fields brings these groundbreaking works back to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, nearly 50 years after Gilliam's first Dublin exhibition, positioning him within a broader transatlantic dialogue on abstraction.



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Irish Museum of Modern Art

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Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 100   

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Sam Gilliam: The Last Five YearsSam Gilliam: The Last Five Years

Published by Pace Publishing/David Kordansky Gallery.
Text by Lowery Stokes Sims.

DC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Color Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon.
Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes and beveled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and foldouts as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam’s dynamic, vibrant compositions.



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Pace Publishing/David Kordansky Gallery

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Paperback, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 94 pgs / 78 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 19   

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Sam GilliamSam Gilliam

Published by Pace Publishing.
Text by Courtney J. Martin, Fred Moten. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Including paintings, sculpture and works on paper, this book documents new works by DC-based color-field painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933). A new interview with the artist brings insight into his life and practice, as well as the experience of making this body of work, which represents an aesthetic shift from Gilliam’s canonical “drape” paintings.

Published for the artist’s inaugural 2020 exhibition at Pace Gallery, in advance of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in spring 2022—which will be Gilliam’s first retrospective in the US in over 15 years—the book also includes new scholarship by Courtney J. Martin and Fred Moten.



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Pace Publishing

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Hardcover, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 18   

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Sam Gilliam: The Music of ColorSam Gilliam: The Music of Color

1967–1973

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Jonathan P. Binstock, Josef Helfenstein. Text by Lynette Yiadiom Boakye, Larne Abse Gogarty, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Squirru.

Between 1967 and 1973, American abstract painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933) undertook some of the most radical work of his six-decade-plus career, a period culminating in Gilliam's representing the US at the Venice Biennale in 1972. The work, including his Martin Luther King series and Jail Jungle series, reflected the fractured political climate of this period. It was also during this period that Gilliam began his beveled-edge paintings. In these iconic works, Gilliam poured acrylic paint directly onto the unprimed canvas, which he folded and crumpled while the paint was still wet, then stretched the canvas over a chamfered frame. The work in Sam Gilliam: The Music of Color conveys the influence of the DC Color Field school on Gilliam's art, and his blending of the lines between sculpture and painting.



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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 81 color / 7 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 17   

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