Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City, California is hosting an exhibition “Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II” by Charles Gaines that will be on view through December 16, 2016.The exhibition is Los Angeles based conceptual artist Charles Gaines’s fourth solo show with the gallery, showcasing a group of large-scale works, collectively titled “Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II”, along with a new, related series of ink on paper drawings. The exhibition continues the ‘Numbers and Trees’ series conceived by the artist in 1986 at a monumental scale. After encountering Tantric Buddhist diagrams in the late 1960s, Charles Gaines started employing system-based methodologies to critique the notion of artistic impulse in his creative process, realizing the interrelation between a system and an image. In this exhibition, each work is composed of three gridded plexi-glass boxes over a divided black-and-white photograph of a tree. Centering the base of the trunk at zero, the shape of the tree is mapped onto the grid by painting and numbering each occupied cell. This process is repeated throughout the series as each sequential piece gains a new tree painted in a new color from the previously plotted trees. Finally, one is left to imply the infinite continuation of the system. Also on view are eight new works of ink on paper drawings which continues with the artist’s exploration of a system that serializes a set of related images.The exhibition is on view at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. For details, visit https://www.vielmetter.com/exhibitions/current/splashscreen.htmlClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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