Looking at the fluidly constructed, vividly coloured works of contemporary artist Sam Gilliam, it's hard to assimilate why his name is not as familiar as it should be. As one of the first artists to explore the practise of painting beyond the field of the canvas, he could—and indeed should—have garnered the same acclaim as his pioneering contemporaries, such as Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg.
Gilliam attended the University of Louisville, where he completed undergraduate and…
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