Public Tour: Sam Gilliam and Let’s Have a Talk

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With a prolific career marked by innovation and experimentation, Sam Gilliam is one of the most celebrated postwar artists and the first Black artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. Sam Gilliam: Printmaker examines his decades of work exploring prints, featuring vibrant compositions that combine elements of collage, assemblage, and sculpture.  

Let’s Have a Talk: Black Artists from the CMA Collection considers the pivotal, though often obscured, role of Black artists in abstraction in the 20th and 21st centuries. See the work of 15 artists including drawing by Bing Davis, sculpture by Sanford Biggers, photography by Carrie Mae Weems, and more. 

Image above: 
Sanford Biggers
American, born 1970
Yo-Yo, 2019
Antique quilt, textiles, birch
Museum purchase
CMA 2019.6
Courtesy of the artist and Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.
© Sanford Biggers. Photo credit: Object
Studies.