The artist Charles Gaines, his beauty and poignance

The beauty and poignance of Gaines’ practice lies in his ability to form entirely new, generative structures — a mindset with profound implications beyond art-making. “I came into being an artist at a time where there was an incredibly racist art world, but it was the only world that we knew about, so it was not like a regression like you’re feeling today…”

Rather than generalize or hold on to false hopes of a utopia, Gaines looks to his immediate surroundings here in Los Angeles, where his impact on the art scene is tangible.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.

Associated image: Jason Armond