Charles Gaines
American · b. 1944 · Painter, Printmaker
Charles Gaines is an American visual artist, whose work interrogates the discourse of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and… (Wikipedia)
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Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series III: Tree #6, GinaPhillips · $167,700≈ £128,152≈ €145,573Sign up to see
Explosion #29Phillips · $55,000≈ £41,816≈ €46,773Sign up to see
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Charles Gaines is an American visual artist, whose work interrogates the discourse of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, the work consistently involves the use of systems, predominantly in the form of the grid, often in combination with photography. His work is rooted in conceptual art – in dialogue with artists such as Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Mel Bochner – and Gaines is committed to its tenets of engaging cognition and language. As one of the only African-American conceptual artists working in the 1970s, a time when political expressionism was a prevailing concern among African-American artists, Gaines was an outlier in his pursuit of abstraction and non-didactic approach to race and politics. There is a strong musical thread running through much of Gaines' work, evident in his repeated use of musical scores as well in his engagement with the idea of indeterminacy, as similar to John Cage and Sol LeWitt. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles County Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtStudio Museum in HarlemWhitney Museum of American ArtArt Institute of Chicago
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