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Birth Name:

Charles Gaines (artist)

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jun 23, 1944

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Age:

79

Zodiac Sign:

Cancer

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Can

2'

About Charles Gaines (artist)

Charles Gaines (born 1944) is an American 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.

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Categories related to Charles Gaines (artist): Living people, New Jersey, June 23 births, 1944 births, South Carolina, African-American artists, California Institute of the Arts faculty, Artists from Newark, 20th-century African-American people, Rochester Institute of Technology alumni, 21st-century African-American people, Newark Arts High School alumni, Artists from Charleston