A "Conversation with the Artist" will be held at 1 p.m. in the Gowen Room of Wilson Commons. The Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies will host the free event, which is cosponsored by the Memorial Art Gallery, the Print Club of Rochester, and Rochester Institute of Technology. At 7:30 p.m., Gilliam will take the stage at the Memorial Art Gallery for an illustrated lecture, "Early Carousels to Flat Color." A limited number of tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance at the Gallery Store. Discounts apply for faculty, staff, and students. Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Miss., and attended the University of Louisville, where he received his bachelor's degree in fine art and his master's degree in painting. His early work in the 1960s and '70s, on stretched and then draped canvas, brought distinction to the Washington Color School. He has been called one of the most important and inventive colorists of the last 30 years. Now into his fifth decade as an artist, Gilliam is creating multimedia installations characterized by bright stains and metallic materials. The artist has earned a long list of public and private commissions, grants, awards, honorary doctorates, and exhibitions at such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He continues to work in his studio in Washington, D.C. As part of his Rochester visit, Gilliam will speak at Rochester Institute of Technology on Friday, March 31. His lecture, cosponsored by the School of Art and RIT's Commission for Promoting Pluralism, will take place in room A172 of the Frank E. Gannett Building. For more information on his River Campus talk, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute at x5-7235. For more information on his evening lecture, contact the Gallery Store at the Memorial Art Gallery at (585) 473-7720, ext. 3034.
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Gilliam featured in two events
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irst a conversation with the artist and later an illustrated lecture by him will connect Rochester audiences with the work of Sam Gilliam, internationally known artist and color field painter, on Thursday, March 30.
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