"Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell" brings together significant artworks by three quintessential abstract artists.

Through the performance series Monumental Connection, featured artists engage in dialogue with performers whose work resonates with Sam Gilliam’s love for jazz, Joan Mitchell’s lifelong connection to poetry, and the frenetic physicality of Cecily Brown’s paintings.

One of the great innovators of postwar American painting, Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) once said, “before painting, there was Jazz.” He appreciated not only the freeform sounds, but the freedom with which the musicians moved, referring to the “acrobatics” of improvisation. Join us for a solo saxophone performance by emerging bandleader Houston Patton in Larson Gallery.