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1989 Charles Gaines postcard to Sol and Carol LeWitt

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Cover of the 1975 Whitney Biennial Exhibition catalogue

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Off the Grid: Movement Workshop and Field Trip

Sep 27, 2014

Led by Elliott Maltby—a designer and founding partner of thread collective, a collaborative design studio that explores the seams between building, art and landscape—the movement workshop encouraged participants to adapt and apply the arbitrary, rule-based systems that underpin Gaines’s works. Participants animated the unique grid of Manhattan, calling on and channeling the themes of conceptualism.

Photos: Nico Wheadon

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Donald Judd, Untitled, 1989

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The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction).

Rosalind Krauss, "Grids," October 1979

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Charles Gaines’s “Numbers & Trees” Series #art #charlesgaines #studio

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Charles Gaines, Falling Leaves I, 1978

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Even the people whom I really liked—Cage or LeWitt—were visionaries, but they were suspicious of letting language get out of control. It was important to protect visual or sound culture from that. I was just the opposite. For me, an artwork is the impetus for letting language get out of control—letting the dynamic experiences happen.

Charles Gaines to Courtney J. Martin, "Five Will Get You Ten: A Conversation with Charles Gaines"

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September 27: Artist Charles Gaines has converted famous speeches by Malcolm X and others into musical scores. Hear them brought to life by a nine-piece ensemble in this premiere event. 

[Charles Gaines. Still from Manifestos 2. 2013]

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The performance will be followed by a conversation with Gaines and Sean Griffin; Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art; and Naima J. Keith, Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem.

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At the Studio Museum tonight #studiomuseum #galleries #charlesgaines

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Rasheed Araeen, Zero to Infinity, 1968–2007

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Charles Gaines, Faces, Set #11: Mary Ann Aloojian, 1978

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...Grids are not only spatial to start with, they are visual structures that explicitly reject a narrative or sequential reading of any kind.

Rosalind Krauss, "Grids," October 1979

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All Things Grids: In addition to the work of Charles Gaines, this blog will highlight the work of artists who incorporate the grid. United by the theme of a “grid aesthetic,” the works featured represent a cross section of movements, generations and materials, and demonstrate the varied use of the grid in modern and contemporary art.

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Colored People Grid), 2008-09

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All Things Grids: In addition to the work of Charles Gaines, this blog will highlight the work of artists who incorporate the grid. United by the theme of a “grid aesthetic,” the works featured represent a cross section of movements, generations and materials, and demonstrate the varied use of the grid in modern and contemporary art.

Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1967

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Charles Gaines, Incomplete Text Set 23, "U" Red Letters, 1979