Sam Gilliam at Pace Gallery

Certainly a “we’re not in Kansas anymore” feeling for me. When I think Sam Gilliam I immediately remember his stained and suspended canvases and multicoloured flowy, tie-dye acrylic, and watercolour paintings. These are different. Heavily textured with an addition of sawdust, aluminium granules, tin shot and grit, the artworks are much more reserved in terms of colour — at least from a distance — but still recognisably draped. They remind me of arial views of some fantastic landscapes or extraterrestrial zen gardens (given the fact that some of them have rake-like scratches gardens are very much a legit association).
Quoting the artist himself: “Every work of art has a moment, has a time, but there is nothing like art. I mean, there’s nothing like art”. Guess it is the moment now.
Exhibition period: July 22—September 2
Gallery address: 12/F, H Queen’s, Central