Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Society for Contemporary Art
Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines gave an overview of his work from the 1960s to the present. His analytical work has been considered a crucial bridge between Conceptual Art from the 1960s and the artistic practices of subsequent generations. For over forty years, Gaines has created rule-based photographs, drawings, and works on paper to reveal systems of order and meaning. For his early work, he tailored serial methodologies associated with Conceptual Art to image-based representation. Meticulously constructed, these pieces use dense grids of hand-drawn lines, numbers, and colors to demonstrate methodical ways of realizing forms including trees, portraits, and the human body. Gaines has explained, “I’ve always had an interest in philosophy and critical thinking, and as a child living in the South during Jim Crow laws, I had deep suspicions about rules created in response to how people looked.” After 1989, the focus of his work shifted more explicitly to issues of race, class, and power—man-made systems marked by inequalities that also affect the way we see.
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