Numbers and Trees, Central Park
2015
Acrylic, inkjet print, plexiglass
95 x 126 1/2 x 5 3/4”

Numbers and Trees: London Series 2, Tree #8, Vine Street
2022
Acrylic sheet, acrylic paint, lacquer, and wood

Librettos
2016
Printed ink stained paper and lightjet on acrylic
66 x 47 x 3 1/2

Charles Gaines (b. 1944, Charleston, South Carolina) is an American artist whose work interrogates the discourse relating aesthetics and politics. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, his work consistently invokes the use of systems as generative parts of the artist’s practice. His work is rooted in Conceptual Art, and he is committed to its tenets of engaging cognition and language. There is a strong musical thread running though much of Gaines’ work, evident in his repeated use of musical scores as well as his engagement with the idea of indeterminacy as developed by John Cage.