"Painting has guts" | Sam Gilliam at the DMA

Inspired by jazz and attuned to the social movements of the late 1960s, artist Sam Gilliam experimented with the material properties of painting. As seen in his work "Leaf," currently on view for free in the exhibition "Slip Zone," Gilliam worked without a brush, pouring acrylic paint on lengths of canvas, which he folded to create complex and vivid effects. Watch the artist discuss this work in this 2017 interview he filmed at the DMA.