Since the early 1960s, Gilliam has been creating richly colored abstract compositions using watercolors on Japanese washi, a traditional type of paper made from inner fibres of plants. The watercolors featured in the exhibition extend the artist’s ongoing exploration of color and form into a palpable entity: a physical, textural presence that reaches beyond painting’s two-dimensional surface. 

This exhibition marks Gilliam’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, following a presentation at Pace in New York and Palm Beach.Watercolors follows The Music of Color, an exhibition of Gilliam’s work presented at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland, in 2018 and curated by Jonathan Binstock and Josef Helfenstein. His work was also included in Pattern, Decoration & Crime presented at Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva in 2018-19.