Veteran Artist Charles Gaines on Why Art Is 'Way More Interesting and Complex' Today Than It Was in the 1970s
We spoke with the artist as he prepared to open a show at Dia Beacon. February 16, 2021 Charles Gaines in his Los Angeles studio, 2020. © Charles Gaines. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. It’s easy to get the wrong impression about the Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines’s pictures. On screens, the works look glitchy or digitized, even though they are painted painstakingly by hand. In person, many of his portraits look from afar as if they are solid—an impression that dissolves upon approach, as it becomes clear that they’re made of hundreds of tiny, ...
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