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Leah Gilliam

The daughter of Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter, and Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first black woman reporter for The Washington Post, she grew up with parents who were instrumental in exposing her to cultural production early on in life.

Washington Color School

Other artists include Sam Gilliam's suspended paintings (by contrast they are almost baroque in sensibility,) Rockne Krebs' transparent sculptures, light & laser works, Ed McGowin's vacuum formed pieces which he was ending and moving towards a more personal art (tableau,) Bill Christenberry's neon works which lead him to deal more directly with his roots, Bob Stackhouse, Tom Green all fall under this art movement.


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