The CMA is reopening its doors and kicking off another summer of free admission for SC residents with featured exhibitions Sam Gilliam: Printmaker and Let's Have a Talk: Black Artists from the CMA Collection. Join us to celebrate with art activities, updated Cross Hatch interactives, exhibition tours, and more. Your museum can't wait to welcome you back! Free.
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Sam Gilliam (1933–2022), one of the great innovators in postwar American painting, began printmaking in the 1970s. He would occasionally use traditional techniques but would also take his prints back to the studio to cut them apart and stitch them back together, resulting in a series of highly innovative and unique works. This exhibition features 37 of Gilliam’s finest prints, from the Michael K. and Marian E. Butler Collection of Miami, Florida. It is organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, in association with the Griots Gallery, Miami, FL.
Bringing together a multigenerational group of 15 Black artists working in and around abstraction, Let’s Have a Talk pushes against longstanding expectations that work by Black artists must present a clear message about their racial identity and experience, and it celebrates their crucial, yet often dismissed, role in abstract art. Featuring sculpture, prints, paintings, and photography from the CMA Collection, this exhibition presents a range of abstract styles including Oliver Lee Jackson’s expressive, gestural mark making, Lorna Simpson’s ambiguous forms, and McArthur Binion’s minimalist designs.
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Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
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