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Artist of the month

Charles Hinman

Charles Hinman, is
one of the many
American contempo-
rary artists who has put
America on the international scene. Since his first solo show in
1964, Mr. Hinman's paintings have always depicted objects
projecting off the wall, and his works can been seen in presti-
gious museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
Musee des Beaux Arts de ]'Ontario in Canada, the Rockefeller
Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art in Nagoaka in
Japan, in order to name only some.

The Executive Director of Boca Raton Museum of Art, Mr,
George S. Bolge put it this way;" Few contemporary artists have
drawn as deeply as Charles Hinman from a great variety of
sources, or translated such a wealth of material into a more
independent and personal expression. Although he has relied
thematically on brilliant color relationships, the intent of his for-
malist attitude has been to manipulate his shapes as geometrically reduced elements in relation to architectoni-
cally defined surfaces. In this work, simplified forms hover over fields of pulsating color, decidedly different from one
another but joined in a kind of obverse relationship."

As the artist himself puts it; " My paintings are an effort to establish a visual language through a personal vocabula-
ry of forms which are three dimensional canvas objects. These objects make a real space, but overlapping planes,
the space made by colors juxtaposed and a linear configuration that suggest perspective, all work together to form
an illusory space".

For further information about the artis' and his work,
you can contact him by email at
cbhin@yahoocom

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