Charles Gaines (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Charles Gaines (artist)

American conceptual artist, born 1944

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1944

Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Profession: photographer, artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, conceptual artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.