Talk:Sam Gilliam/to do


 * Additions
 * Addl citations beyond Binstock for pre-1970
 * Addl one-off biographical details
 * Involvement in founding of DC Arts Center and the Washington Project for the Arts
 * (?) Involvement in the protests surrounding the 1979 Artists Space exhibition by Donald Newman (this probably deserves its own article given its significance in the art world at the time)
 * Addl teaching positions: UMD (82-85) & Carnegie Mellon (85-89)
 * 20s: final series of late works (drapes, heavy impasto slices, watercolors, and tondos) (might not be necessary, but he sped up his production speed super intensely at the end and made a bunch of new works in previous styles)
 * mid-80s-early 90s: Stylistic transition from constructions with canvas (Chasers and "quilted" paintings) to constructions with painted and printed metal, wood, plastic --> transition to Slatts
 * 00s Slatts -> geometric paintings (Josef Albers-inspired), retrospective '05
 * Kreeger '98 + moving to new ways of making his metal/wood/plastic constructions (digital imaging, site-specific references to their placement)
 * Custom Road Slide
 * Ahab series (exploring white as a color, pre-White paintings)
 * Chasers series (final section in 70s) --> transition to quilted paintings
 * early 90s drop-off in media attention --> quoted analysis/criticism about both the factual aspect of the decline (steady # of solo shows outside of major art cities + lots of commissions - but significantly fewer "blockbuster" shows and media coverage, almost no group shows, etc.) and the narrative around/reasons for the decline (theories about post-black/conceptual art's rise, theories about the effects of a claimed overdetermination of the 80s narrative on his work that centered on its connections to African/African-American visual vernaculars, etc.)
 * 90s commissions (public & at least one notable private),
 * post-Kordansky resurgence details - venice, NMAAHC, lots of notice/demand, plus quoted analysis on the meaning/reason
 * pace gallery (speed of new shows, details of show w/ Williams/Edwards)
 * covid + hirshhorn
 * Edits/trimming/other
 * fully refactor notable works in pub. coll.
 * cut down on prose length and prep for individ. sections to be split (drapes, etc.)
 * trim references to individ. works, re-style & remove date references
 * Additional articles/splits
 * Binstock
 * Drape paintings, move most major drape installations here with more in-depth centralized analysis about their definition/composition/development/themes
 * Possibly one individual article for the most notable Drape (probably Seahorses and/or Autumn Surf, a surviving major early drape like A and the Carpenter, or Yves Klein Blue)
 * Black Paintings (?)
 * Dark as I Am (Composed) (?)
 * Slice paintings (?)
 * or the specific Martin Luther King series (?)
 * Public art by (everywhere I turn I'm finding another public sculpture in another random local government building, this needs its own page)
 * Works by (still ongoing)