Towson University Department of Art and the Towson University African American Cultural Center present the exhibition Premonitions and Reflections: Works on Paper by Sam Gilliam on Friday, January 27 through Tuesday, February 28 during the gallery hours of Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Center for Arts Gallery and Holtzman MFA Art Gallery.
Premonitions and Reflections: Works on Paper by Sam Gilliam presents four decades of work that establishes Gilliam?s place in the history of post-1960s American abstract art. In 1968, Gilliam made an indelible impression on the history of art when he jettisoned the wooden stretcher bars that had previously determined the shape of his paintings and allowed his vivid, sometimes ecstatic, rushes of color-stained canvas to hang, billow and swing through space. Yet Gilliam?s contributions to art history extend far beyond these often monumental and always dramatic works.
A reception is Friday, February 10 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
