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ARTFORUM
SEPTEMBER 1968

In his first one-man showing in New York, Washington artist SAM GILLIAM displays a range of touch and sensibility which indicates both his dependence on and divergence from the methods of other Washington painters, Louis and Noland. Although Gilliam takes off from Louis's technique of spilling paint into troughs of canvas, the structuring which he obtains from his own version of this practice is less artfully contrived and more casual than the specificity of design which distinguishes the older artist's work. Gilliam prefers to take advantage of surface tactility and attention is focused on the accidental effects obtained by the Rorschach-like folds which puddle and blot the thick globs of paint. Color, then, is not used to situate an image within a particular exterior shape or field, nor 

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