Charles Gaines
Charles Gaines is an artist. His body of work has been the subject of numerous survey exhibitions; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2023), the Phoenix Art Museum (2024); Dia Beacon, New York (2021); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014) and the Hammer Museum, (2015), and included in the Venice Biennale (2007, 2015). He is a recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal (2019) and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022).
Rather than an icon of the avant-garde and perhaps its apotheosis, Duchamp represents a turning point, its end. But not in a negative way—quite the opposite. He is the segue that closes one chapter on history and opens up a new one. He represents the transition from modernism to postmodernism.