Sam Gilliam Hard-Edge Paintings 1963-1966
March 28 through May 11, 2013
5130 W. Edgewood Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90019
A revolutionary figure in postwar American art, Sam Gilliam helped define the Washington Color School in the mid-1960s and pushed Color Field painting to its extremes. Gilliam utilized the tenets of hard-edge geometric painting as starting points for a series of formal experiments that would soon lead to subsequent breakthroughs in contemporary painting.