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Untitled

1975

Charles Gaines

(American, 1944-)
publisher

Communications Village

(American, 1973-1983)
Culture
America
Medium
etching on wove paper
Measurements
Image: 100.3 x 69.5 cm (39 1/2 x 27 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2023.167
Copyright
© Charles Gaines Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Charles Gaines printed this etching himself on the press of Benjamin Wigfall, another important Black abstract artist half a generation older.

Description

Contemporary artist Charles Gaines was influential within the Conceptual Art movement, where he has explored methods of art making derived from systems beginning around 1970. Dominated by a dense and methodical system of marks, this etching features the grids for which Gaines is best known. He uses pre-determined and sometimes arbitrary rules for creating these structures, also drawing influence from Eastern spiritual writing on the meditative qualities inherent to producing such structures.
A vertically oriented etching on cream paper features a large, dark gray rectangle of dense, overlapping lines. The texture resembles woven fabric with subtle horizontal bands of varying shades. A thin, indented line frames the central field, leaving wide margins. Handwritten pencil notations and a signature appear at the bottom. The composition emphasizes the intricate interplay of line and the tonal depth created by the fine, intersecting marks.

Untitled

1975

Charles Gaines, Communications Village

(American, 1944-), (American, 1973-1983)
America

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