Friday, August 6th, 2010
Opening Reception
Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits
Friday, August 6, 2010
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits celebrates the life and work of groundbreaking artist Sewell Sillman (1924 - 1992). In the late 1940s, Sillman studied with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College and continued to work with Albers until the 1970s. Sillman absorbed Albers's approach to color, design, drawing and education over the decades of their work together, bringing Albers's lessons to bear on his own art and teaching. This exhibition features many of Sillman's graceful abstract drawings and watercolors alongside powerful color studies printed in collaboration with Albers.
This exhibition was organized and curated by the Florence Griswold Museum. A catalogue will be available in the Museum Shop with essays by Mary Emma Harris and Amanda Border.
Image credit: Sewell Sillman, Water Gate, 1960, oil on masonite, 21.5 x 21.5 inches. Florence Griswold Museum. Gift of the Sewell Sillman Foundation.
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