Charles Hinman “Shaped Paintings”
Westwood Gallery
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Curated by James Cavello
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents a solo exhibition of New York artist Charles Hinman (b. 1932) as part of its program of exhibitions and events dedicated to artists in the Bowery Arts District, past and present. The exhibition of 40 artworks, spanning from the 1970s until 2014, includes a curated selection of shaped canvases, drawings and sculpture highlighting the artist’s unique process.
Charles Hinman’s paintings have explored the boundaries of light, shadow and shape through elaborate three-dimensional structures created with mathematical formulas for over fifty years. Hinman’s art career began in the 1960’s with a seminal exhibition 7 New Artists at Sidney Janis Gallery, followed by a solo exhibition at Richard Feigen Gallery in 1964. Other important 1960s exhibitions included the Tibor de Nagy 1965 exhibition curated by Frank Stella and Henry Geldzahler (with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Will Insley); Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure at Finch College Museum of Art, May 1966 (Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Charles Hinman, Will Insley, Sven Lukin); Young America, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965, and Art Institute of Chicago’s annuals in 1966 and 1969. For the next four decades Hinman’s work was exhibited worldwide and expanded to commissions, such as The Wooden Dove, spanning almost 50 feet across.
Hinman’s work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions and collectors around the world since then. His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Denver Art Museum, the Nagaoka Museum in Japan, the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, among others. He is the recipient of Guggenheim Foundation grants and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants. He lives and works on the Bowery.
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from February 28, 2017 to April 26, 2017