John Seed and Gabrielle Selz present "Sam Francis and Color"

  • 13 May 2025
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • virtual

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Sam Francis and Color
Sam Francis (1923-1994) was an internationally acclaimed Abstract Expressionist who spoke of color as “a kind of holy substance” and a “receptacle of a feeling.” In this webinar art historian John Seed and Francis’s biographer Gabrielle Selz will explore the artist’s fascination with color and the varied effects and meanings he generated with it over the span of his career. They will also describe his collaborations with Daniel Cytron, a studio assistant who for three decades manufactured custom acrylic color dispersions and printing inks to Francis’s specifications. 

Speaker bios:

 John Seed is professor emeritus of art and art history at Mount San Jacinto College in Southern California. Seed has written about art and artists for publications including The Huffington Post, Arts of Asia, and Hyperallergic, and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World. For over a decade Seed has also served as a board member for the Los Angeles based Sam Francis Foundation. 

Gabrielle Selz is an art historian, fine art appraiser, and award-winning author. Her most recent book was the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, Light on Fire: the Art and Life of Sam Francis, which was awarded the Silver Medal for Best Nonfiction by the California Book Awards 2021. Her previous book, Unstill Life: Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and was listed as one of the best books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, More Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beat, Literary Hub, Berkeleyside and Newsday among others. Her art criticism has appeared in Art Forum, Hyperallergic and Art Papers.


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