Sam Gilliam at Michel Rosenfeld is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

The Color Black

Sam Gilliam works with form and hue, but we always see history in it.

Published Jan. 31 2014 6:12PM EST

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This is Sam Gilliam’s “One Thunder”, from a show at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on abstraction by Black artists – about as vexed a subject as you could ask for.

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Sam Gilliam at Michel Rosenfeld is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Sam Gilliam works with form and hue, but we always see history in it.

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