SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
CHARLES GAINES
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1944     Born in Charleston, South Carolina

 

EDUCATION

 

1967     M.F.A, Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Art and Design

1966     B.A, Jersey City State College

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2008     Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany

2007     “Greenhouse”, LAX><ART, Los Angeles

            “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy (curated by Robert Storr)

            Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

2006     “Drawings from the ‘Explosion’ and the ‘Randomized Text’ Series”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

            “Snake River”, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux and the LA Philharmonic, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles

                     Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig)

            Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005     Steve Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004     Survey exhibition 1991-2004, Triple Candie, New York, NY

2003     “Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Phoebe Conley Art Gallery

2002     “Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles

2001          “Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Adoline Kent Award Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery,

                     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2000          John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

            Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), two one-person

                     shows, Charles Gaines and Kara Walker, City University of New York, NY

1997     Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

            Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996     Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA

            John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1995     Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA

1993     Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

1991     “Charles Gaines: A Survey Exhibition, 1979-1991”, Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris; John Weber Gallery, New

                     York, NY; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989     JohnWeber Gallery, New York, NY

            Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, “Fresh Visions”, Santa Monica, CA

1988     Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris, France

            Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

1987     John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

            Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1985     Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1984     “Artist of the Month Exhibition,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1981     Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

            John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1980     John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

            Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

            Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

            Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1979     Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Il

            Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA

1978     Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1975     University of Southern California, Los Angeles

1972     Cinque Gallery, New York, NY

            University of Southern California, Los Angeles

1971     Louisville School of Art, Anchorage, Kentucky

1969     State University of New York, College at Oswego, New York

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2008     “Weighing and Wanting” Musuem of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

           „Wild Signals – Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis“, Wuerttembergischer
                    Kunsverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2007     “Im Wort”, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany

            “Read Me: Text in Art”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (curated by Malik Gaines)

            “From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

            Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005     “Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

            “Hommage to Friedrich Schiller,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

            Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany

2004          “Fade (1990-Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition”, Luckman Gallery and the

                     University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA (curated by Malik Gaines)

                     Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles

            “Recherche-entdeckt!  Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten (Research-discovered!  Picture Archive of the

                     Invisibilities)”, Sixth Esslingen International Photo Triennial, Galerie de Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar

            Group Show, Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., curated by Bruria Finkel

2003     “Structure of Difference: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography of the Past 50 Years,” Wadsworth Atheneum,

                     Hartford, CT

            “Rhythm of Structure,” Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery, New York, NY

            “Urban Aesthetics 2003,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles

            Prints from Segura Press, group show, New Mexico State University Art Museum

            “The Night of the Hunter,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

            “Selections from the LeWitt Collection,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2002     “Math Art,” Art Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL

            “What About Hegel,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

2001     Group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

            “Rhapsody,” Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson, AZ

            “Song Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers”, a project by Steven Hull. Cohan Leslie

                     and Browne, New York, NY

2000     “Deep Distance-Die Entfernung der Fotografie”, Kunsthalle Basel; curated by Wilhelm Schürmann

            “A Selective Survey of Political Art”, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1999     “Mixed Media: Selections from the Segura Publishing Archives”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,

                     Scottsdale, AZ

            “Pictures of Other People’s Bodies”, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            “More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, organized by

                     Wilhelm Schümann

            “Landschaft—Stadtlandschaft” (Landscape—Cityscape), Brigitte March Gallery

            “Landscape Memories”, organized by Steven Hull, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            “Touring the Frame”, organized by Charles Gaines, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997     National Museum of art (Stadtgalerie), Die Magie Der Zahl, Stuttgart, Germany

1996     “Castles”, two person collaboration, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

            “Castles”, Full Moon Gallery, Los Angeles

            “Some Grids: The Grid in Twentieth Century Art”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1995     Recent publications, Chicago Art Fair, Segura Press, Tempe. Arizona, Chicago, IL

1994     Cologne Art Fair, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany; Cologne, Germany

            “Earthworks and Landscapes”, Fuel Gallery, Seattle, WA

            “Paper Work”, John Weber Gallery, New York City, NY

            “Group show (works from the collection)”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA

1993     “The Naming of the Colors”, White Columns, New York, NY

               “Artists Writing Reading Room”, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

            “L.A. Next: Six Los Angeles Artists”, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

            “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis”, (collaboration on a work by Robin Kahn), The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1992     “Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection”, Wadswoth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

            “Force/Sight, International Kunst der Gegenwart”, Schloss Presteneck, (Stein am Kocher), Wurzburg, Germany,

                     organized by Brigitte March

            “No Justice, No Peace”, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles

            “Counterweight,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA

            “LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition” (simultaneous exhibitions by several participating arts institutions), Otis Art

                     Institute Gallery, Los Angeles

1990     “The Grid: Organization and Idea”, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ

1989     “Landscape Visions”, Office of the Chancellor, CSU Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1988     Cologne Art Fair (Brigitte March Gallery), Cologne, Germany            

1986     “Work from the Collection of Sol LeWitt,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1985     “Selections from the William Hokin Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

            “Work from the Collection of Sol LeWitt”, Auckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;

                     Everhart Art Museum, Scranton, PA; The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York

            “Process and Construction”, sponsored by Archives of Contemporary Thought, Brigitte March Gallery,

                     Kunstlerwerkstatt and Lenbachaus Museum; Kunstler Werkstatt and Lenbachaus, Munich, Germany

            “Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection”, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles

            “Artists Forum: Selected Faculty Artists form the California State University”, Office of the Chancellor, Los Angeles

1984     “Contemporary Watercolors”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

            “Work From the Collection of Sol LeWitt”, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

1982     “Selections”, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont at Burlington, VT

            “Selections”, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

            “Works form the Collection of Sol LeWitt”, Wesleyan University Art Museum, CT (travelling in 1984)

            “Numero Quattro”, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

1981     “Artists from the John Weber Gallery”, Florida International University, Tamiami Trail, Miami, FL

            “Post Modernist Metaphors”, organized by Horace Brockington, The Alternative Museum, New York

            “New Dimensions in Drawing: 1950-1980”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

               “Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

                        (traveling in 1982)

1980     Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

            “Systems, Inquiry, Translation”, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

            “An Exhibition of Drawings from the Margo Leavin Gallery”, California State College, Bakersfield, CA

            “Benefit Show for the Center for the Performing Arts”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

            “Artists from the John Weber Gallery”, University of South Florida Art Galleries, College of Fine Art, Tampa, FL

            “Prints from the Landfall Press”, Melinda Wyatt Gallery, Los Angeles

1979     “Exchanges”, Henry Street Settlement, New York

            “The Grid”, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

            “Portraits”, Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO

            “Gallery Artists Show”, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

            “Gallery Artists Summer Show”, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

1978     “John Weber Invitational”, John Weber Gallery, New York

            “Works on Paper”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

            “Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art”, curated by Rainer Crone, Leo Castelli Gallery,

                     New York (travels in 1978-79)

            Yale University Galleries, New Haven, CT

            “Numerals”, Dartmouth College Gallery, University Art Gallery, Hanover, NH; University of North Dakota,

                     Grand Forks; Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Art Museum of North Texas, Corpus Christi;

                     Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH

         Minneapolis College of Arts and Design, Minneapolis, MN

            “Recent Publications”, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL

1977     Golden West College, Los Angeles

1976     Golden West College, Los Angeles

1975     Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

            “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1974     “Black Artists Recent Attitudes”, California State University, Fresno, CA

1973     California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA

            Oakland Museum (permanent installation), Oakland, CA

 

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2008     “’Globalization’ of the Biennial Wave”, Art in Asia Magazine, No. 4, March - April

            Smith, Terry, “The World From Europe: Mega-Exhibitions from Spring 2007,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring 2008

2007          Ostendorf, Yasmine, “De Schoonheid Van Een Ramp,” Mister Motley, December

            JS, “United States Artists winners,” Flash Art Online, November 20

               Fragoza, Carribean, “LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds,” Flash Art Online, November 16

            Boehm, Mike, “USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light,” Los Angeles Times, November 15

            “Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships,” Artforum.com, November 15

         Siegal, Katy, “The Buck Stops Here”, Artforum, September

         Ollman, Leah, “Smoggy side of L.A. ‘Greenhouse’”, Los Angeles Times, August 10

         Mizota, Sharon, “Clarity in every crisis”, Los Angeles Times, July 29

         Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art: Charles Gaines’ Greenhouse”, LA Weekly, July 25

         Bedford, Christopher, “Charles Gaines at LAXART”, Artforum, July 19

         Wrigley, Paul, “The 52nd International Art Exhibition”, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Australia, July

         Levin, Kim, “Death in Venice”, The Brooklyn Rail, July

         Schjeldahl, Peter, “Big Ideas”, New Yorker, June 25

               O’Keeffe, Alice, “The art of a good time”, New Statesman, June 21

               Mustroph, Tom, “Fragezeichen über Venedig”, Neues Deutschland, June 19

               Czöppan, Gabi, “Augenschmaus statt Angstschweiβ”, Focus, June 13

               Kaè, Maja, “Policentrièna umetnost tega trenutka”, Triera (Slovenia), June 12

               Kaè, Maja, “Policentrièna umetnost tega trenutka”, RTV Slovenija, June 12

               Haun, Anne, “Das grosse Kunst-Ragout”, artnet, June 11

               “Venice Art Biennale 2007”, designboom.com, continuously updated June-November

               Finkel, Jori, “A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black”, New York Times, June 10

               Schirrmeister, Benno, “Isa Genzkens ‘Öl für Kunst’-Programm”, taz.de, June 9

               Mathonnet, Philippe, “A Venise, l’art s’humanise”, Le Temps, June 9

               Lacayo, Richard, “And A Bit More On Storr”, Time Magazine, June 8

               Huber-Lang, Wolfgang, “Zwischen Museum und Katastrophengebiet”, Wiener Zeitung, June 8

               De Sanctis Mangelli, Flavia, “Paesaggi di Guerra”, l’Unità, June 7

               Moshayedi, Aram, “Charles Gains + Edgar Arceneaux”, Art Papers, January/February

2006        Pagel, David, “Connecting beauty, suffering”, Los Angeles Times, December 22

               Blumenstein, Ellen, “L.A. Confidential”, Monopol, November/December

            Ollman, Leah, “Forks abound in ‘Snake River’”, Los Angeles Times, October 4

            Muchnic, Suzanne, “The Art Explosion”, Los Angeles Times, October 1

            “Snake River”, Photography Now, July/August/September

            “Räume und Kulturen verflochten”, Krone OÖ, May 19

            “Ausstellung”, OÖ Nachrichten, May 2

            “Kunst: Snake River im Lentos”, Oberösterreichblicke, May

            “Das Österreich-Kalendarium”, Reisemagazin, May

            “Aktuelle Ausstellungen”, Neues aus Linz, May

            Thek, Franz, “Sprache von Fluss und Musik”, OÖ Nachrichten, April 29

            Hofleitner, Johanna, “Der Lauf der Dinge”, Schaufenster, April 28

            Hutter, Andreas, “Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als ‘Filmproduzent’”, Neues Volksblatt, April 28

            Haderer, Gerhard, “Snake River”, Österreichisches Pressebüro (oepb.at/linz), April 28

            CB, “Watchlist”, Der Standard, April 27

            “‘Snake River’ im Lentos”, Tips, April 25

            “Snake River”, Schaufenster, April 21

               “Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River”, freikarte.at, April 3

            Snake River: Charles Gaines and Edgar Arceneaux, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (RedCat show catalogue), Ed. Karen Jacobson

2005     Cotter, Holland, (mention in a review of Rodney McMillian exhibition), New York Times, January 21

2004     Haithman, Diane, “Crossing Generations,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, January 19, p. 2.

            Harvey, Doug, “Color Theory, ‘Fade’ to Black,” LA Weekly, February 13-19, 2004, p. 55.

            Cotter, Holland, “Charles Gaines Survey Exhibition: 1991-2004,” New York Times, p. B31, April 30

2003    Iwona Blaswick, “Conference Report: Beauty rears its ugly head again,” re Charles Gaines’s “The Paradox of Black

                     Pluralism,” Art Monthly, No. 265, pp. 44-45, April

2002     Calder, Diane, “Charles Gaines”, artscenecal.com, April

2001     Miles, Christopher, “Charles Gaines”, Artforum, February, p. 158.

            Bonetti, David, "Gaines probes darkness in 'Lurid Stories' show," review, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, p. C1

            Helfand, Glen, "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 4-10, Vol. 35, No. 40, p. 73.

            Olson, Marisa S., "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines at the San Francisco Art Museum", Artweek, September, Vol. 32, Issue 9, pp. 19-20

            Gaines, Malik, “Remember the Grid”, Untitled, Summer 2001, No. 25

2000     Sirmans, Franklin, review of Weber show, John Weber Gallery, Time Out/New York, issue #238, April 13-20

            Myers, Holly, "Disasters in the Making," Los Angeles Times, December 29, p. F32

1999     Intra, Giovanni, “La struttura mobile,” article, Tema Celeste, No. 72, January/February, pp. 50-55

            Pagel, David, “Glimpses of the Drama in LA Settings,” Los Angeles Times, July 16, p. F31

1998     Klein, Jennie, "Circumventing the Center:  Identity Politics and Marginalization," Postmodern Perspectives, Howard

                     Risatti, ed., (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall), 1998, pp 273, 297-99, 300-301

            Intra, Giiovanni,  review of "Airplanecrashclock", Richard Heller Gallery, Art/Text, #59, p. 89

                     November, 1997-January, 1998, p. 89.

            "Transfiction I," Wienlexicon Kunstkalender, #34, review, Charim Klocker Gallery, April

            Curtis, Cathy, "When Seeing Isn't Believing, Orange County Calendar, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12, p. F 2

            Walsh, Daniella, "A visit to 'Other Related Areas,' " review of "other related areas, U. C. Irvine Art Gallery,

                     Fine Arts, review, Orange County Register, October 25, p. 26

            Schoenkopf, Rebecca, "Cool World:  Alternative environments are neat!" review of "other related areas,"

                     U. C. Irvine Art Gallery, Orange County Weekly, October 23-29, p. 29

1997     Otto, Susan, review of "Airplanecrashclock", review, Richard Heller Gallery, Art in America, December, p. 99

            Intra, Giovanni, “Charles Gaines”, Art/Text, 1997

1996     Hale, David, “Was victims’ fate merely in the stars?” Fresno Bee, February 17, p. H4

            Knight, Christopher, "There's Evidence of Good Work Found at 'Scene of Crime.' "Los Angeles Times,

                     July 29,sec. F, p. 1.

1995     Kandel, Susan, review of "Night/Crimes," Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles Times, April 20

            Green, David, "Net Gaines: Making a Case for "Night/Crimes.", Los Angeles Reader, May 26

            Nolan, Timothy, review of Night/Crimes, “Lewis Baltz at Gallery Ram and Charles Gaines at the Santa Monica

                     Museum, Santa Monica Museum show, Artweek, p. 26, June

            Brooks, Rosetta, "The Metaphysics of Murder: Charles Gaines’ Work Explores the Human and the Cosmic", L. A. Village View,  p. 39, June 2-8

            Frank, Peter, "Art Picks of the Week," L. A. Weekly, Vol. 17, No. 28, June 9-15

            Gerstler, Amy, "Night/Crimes", Artforum, Vo. 34, No. 1, September, p. 97.

            Zellen, Jody, "Night/Crimes", Art Press, September, p. 11

1993     Veneciano, Daniel, review of "No Justice, No Peace," New Art Examiner, February

            Waddington, Chris, "Pieces don't make a whole at CAC show." Lagniappe, November 5, pgs. 23-25

1992     Pagel, David, "Becoming Unraveled, LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", Los Angeles Times, December 11

1991     Ger, Suvan, “Group Effort Using Science Pays Off”, The Los Angeles Times, July 19

            Chattopodhyay, Collette, “Charles Gaines”, Artweek, July 18

1990     Hale, David, article, “FSU ties intact as Gaines leaves for Cal Arts,” The Fresno Bee, September 9

1989     “Fresh Visions," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 25

1985     Vivien Raynor, “Art: The Conceptualists,” New York Times, July 12

1982     Liebman, Lisa, “Charles Gaines”, Art Forum, Vol. 20, No. 6, pg. 88, February

1980     Review of "Systems, Inquiry, Translation," Art Forum, Nov

1979     San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 7

            Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, April 2

            New Art Examiner, April

            Alloway, Lawrence, review of "Exchanges," New York Times, June 8

1979     Hale, David, “Gaines: All Systems Are Go”, The Fresno Bee

            Frank, Peter, "Exchanges, "Village Voice, June 18

            "Exchanges," Soho News, NYC, May 30

            Article, Print Collectors Newsletter, Chicago, July

            Review of "The Grid," The New Art Examiner, May

            Review of Fresno Exhibition., West Art

            Muchnic, Susanne, review of Margo Leavin Gallery exh., Los Angeles Times, July 7

1978     Marjorie Del Parker, "Bolomey and Gaines at Fresno Art Center," West Art, July 13, p. 3

            Brengelman, Paula, “The Big Raisin”, Aug 1978, vol. 2, Issue 8, Titled "New Gaines Book”, book

            Hale, David, “All Systems Go,” Fresno Bee, August 13

            Article, Fresno Bee, December 13

1975     Hoesterey, Ingeborg, review of Whitney Biennial, “New York”, Art International, May 15, pg 54

1972     Wilson, William, "Lumber and Beds and USC", The Los Angeles Times, October 23

            "Recent Paintings of Charles Gaines at Cinque Gallery", New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 1 No. 7, April

            “Cinque Gallery exhibit”, Art News, May

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS, CATALOGUES

 

2006     Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, catalogue, Redcat, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

2005     Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2004     International Review of African American Art, , “Rhythm of Structure,” photo of Charles Gaines’, “Numbers and

                     Trees,” vol. 19, no. 3

            Recherche-entdeckt!  Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten (Research-discovered!  Picture Archive of the

                     Invisibilities), catalog for the Sixth Esslingen International Photo Trienial, Galerie de Stadt, Esslingen

                     am Neckar, Revolver: Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Andreas Bur and Ludwig Seyfarth, editors

2001     Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, San Francisco Art Institute Publication, Adaline Kent Award

                   exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer, p 9

            Gaines, Malik, "Remember the Grid: Charles Gaines interviewed by Malik Gaines," article, Untitled, UK

                     summer, No. 25, p. 22, 23

            Song Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers, a project by Steven Hull, Cohan Leslie

                     and Browne Gallery, New York City, June

2000     Pagel, David, Themes Out of School:  Art and Education in Los Angeles, catalogue for the Creative Artist Agency

                   Collection, (Los Angeles: CAA ), April, p. 51

            Franklin Sirmans,Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, catalogue essay Adaline Kent Award

                   exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1999     Johnstone, Mark, Contemporary Art in Southern California, (Sydney:  Craftsman House), pp. 72-75

1998     Birrell Studio, Eagle Rock, California

            “More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie,” catalogue, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

1997     Von Maur, Karin, Magie der Zahl:  in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, catalogue, Stadtsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

            Hull, Steven, “I’m Still In Love With You,” catalogue, Steven Hull, Twentieth Century Century Women’s Club,

1995     Gamblin, Noriko, Night/Crimes, brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, April, 1995

            Art Walk, '95, Venice Family Clinic, Venice, CA, May, 1995

1993     Gookin, Kirby, The Naming of the Colors, White Columns, New York City, April

            Gerstler, Amy, L. A Next:  Six Los Angeles Artists, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1

1992     Force/Sight, International Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Presteneck, Brigitte March, Wurzburg, Stuttgart, Sept.

            No Justice, No Peace, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles,Ca., October,

            Hugo, Joan, Counterweight, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Ca., November

            Gerstler, Amy; Fehlau, Fred, LAX, THE LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,

                     December

1989     Landscape Visions, Office of the Chancellor, Art Gallery, CSU Long Beach, Ca., January

1988     Artists Forum: Selected Faculty Artists from the California State University, CSU, Los Angeles, Oct.

            Gookin, Kirby, Charles Gaines, Catalogue, Lavignes-Bastille Gallery, Paris, Jan

1985     Process Und Konstruktion, 1985 in Munich, Archives of Contemporary Thought, Galerie Brigitte March,  June

            Black and White Drawings from ther David Nellis Collection, California State University, Los Angeles, Ca

            Selections from the William Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1981     Artists from the John Weber Gallery, (brochure), John Weber Gallery, New York City

            Paoletti, John, No Title: Selections from the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Wesleyan University, Ct., Oct.

            Brockington, Horace, Post modernist Metaphors, The Alternative Museum, New York City, April

            Anderson, Richard E., New Dimensions in Drawing, 1950-1980, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Ct., May

            Posner, Helane, Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, Chase Manhattan Bank

            Miller-Keller, Andrea; Ravenal, John B., From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, ICI Curators, 1985-86

1979     Lippard, Lucy; Exchanges, Henry Street Settlement, New York City, April

            Portraits, (brochure), Center for the Visual Arts, Apen, Co.

1978     Rainer Crone, Numerals:  Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, (ill.)

                     Landfall Press, Inc., Chicago, IL., Dec

1975     Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, (ill.)

 

PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES

 

2008     Gaines, Charles, “The New Cosmopolitanism”, California State University, Fullerton

2005     Gaines, Charles, reprint of “Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism in the catalog Double

                     Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, (originally printed in the catalog “Theater of

                     Refusal”, University of California, Irvine), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, January

2004     Gaines, Charles, “Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations,” Afterall, Sept.

2003     Gaines, Charles, “Art, Post History and the Paradox of Black Pluralism,” Merge, vol. 12, 2003, Stockholm,

                     Sweden, p. 52.

            Gaines, Charles, “Surviving Alaska: Michael Joo’s Sublime Transformations.” Michael Joo exhibition catalog,

                     Institute of Technology Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2001  Gaines Projects 1995-2001, catalogue essay Adoline Kent Award exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery,

                   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1999     Gaines, Charles, “Avant L.A. Letter,” commentary, letters section, Artforum, February

            Gaines, Charles, “Memories: The Art of Kyung Won Moon,” from the catalog, Kung Won Moon, Park Ryu Sook

                     Gallery, Soul, South Korea

            Gaines, Charles, “Art and the Search for Origin Amidst the Scent of Flowers,” from the catalogue Origins, Fresno

                     Art Museum, Fresno, CA.

            Gaines, Charles, "Metonymy and the Defamiliarization of Objects," Lurid Stories: Charles

1996     Gaines, Charles, "Hotter Than July," Margo Leavin Gallery exhibition, Art + Text, #55, September, pp. 12, 16

1995     Gaines, Charles, commentary on the Whitney Museum exhibition "Black Male," World Art, January

            Gaines, Charles, "Bear Stories," Framework, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1995, Los Angeles, California, p. 5

1994     Gaines, Charles, "Untitled," Color This!  A Collection of Los Angeles Artists' Drawings, (Los Angeles:

                     Foundation For Art Resources, Inc. [FAR]), 1994, p. 44

1993     Gaines, Charles, "Theater of Refusal:  Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Catalogue, (UC Irvine)

            Gaines, Charles, "The Devil and Mona Lisa:  Confessions of an Art Heckler," New Art Examiner, December, pg. 24

            Gaines, Charles, "Manifesto," Promotional Copy, edited by Robin Kahn, (New York:  Mimi Somerby, S.O.S.

                     International, and B.R.A.T.), 1993, p. 33.

1990     Gaines, Charles, "Sandra Rowe:  Androgyny and the Janusian Split," Catalogue (UC, Riverside), CA

            Gaines, Charles, "Sandra Rowe:  Androgyny and the Janusian Split,"Journal of Social Theory in Art Education,

                     J.S.T.A.E., #10, April, pgs 158-163

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

2008     Faculty Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2007     United States Artists Fellowship

            Norton Family Foundation Grant, Los Angeles

2004     Durfee Foundation Grant, Los Angeles

            California Institute of the Arts, Dean’s Grant, Valencia, CA

2001     Adoline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1977     National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

            Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla

            Studio Museum Harlem, New York

            Museum of Modern Art, New York

            Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

            Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

            Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

            Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

            Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

            Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art

            Städtishche Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München

            Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany

            Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

            Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria