Charles Gaines | Numbers and Trees: Tiergarten Print
Series, #1, 2018
© Charles Gaines | Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth | Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Charles Gaines | Numbers and Faces: Multi-Racial/Ethnic Combinations
Series 1: Face #7, Eduardo Soriano-Hewitt (Black/Filipino), 2020
© Charles Gaines | Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth | Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Charles Gaines | Numbers and Faces: Multi-Racial/Ethnic Combinations
Series 1, Set A: Face #1, Nour Mobarak (Levantine/White European); Face #2, Michael Gross (Filipino/Black)
Face #3, Caley Feeney (Alaskan Native (Yup’ik)/Irish American); Face #4, Dakota Higgins (Afro-Panamanian/White) (detail), 2019
© Charles Gaines | Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth | Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Charles Gaines | Numbers and Faces: Multi-Racial/Ethnic Combinations
Series 1: Face #15, Jayna Won (Korean/Black), 2020
© Charles Gaines | Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth | Photo: Alex Delfanne
2023 SIGNATURE ARTIST
CHARLES GAINES

We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction Signature Artist, Charles Gaines. Gaines is a pivotal figure in the field of Conceptual Art, an educator, and a philanthropist-activist. He recently retired from the CalArts School of the Arts where he was on faculty for over 30 years and established a fellowship to provide critical scholarship support for Black students in the M.F.A. Art program.

Gaines has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally, and his work is in prominent public collections around the world. We’re honoring him this year because he is an incredible artist, a compassionate citizen, and a generous neighbor.

 

Portrait © Charles Gaines. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.

“Centuries of racism have caused significant disparities in health outcomes among Black and Brown people.

If we are going to heal–as individuals, as communities, and as a country–we must confront this truth with compassion and action.

I’m proud to join Venice Family Clinic staff, donors, volunteers, artists and activists who work tirelessly to dismantle health inequities and provide health care for all.”

– Charles Gaines

VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ART WALK + AUCTION
SIGNATURE ARTISTS

Each year, the Curatorial Committee of Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction honors an artist or artists who exemplifies the spirit of the event, a devotion and dedication to the artistic community and the people the Clinic serves.

2023
Charles Gaines
2022
Andrea Bowers
2021
Mary Weatherford
2020
Frank Gehry
2019
Laura Owens + Gary Steinborn
2018
Alexis Smith
2017
Barbara Kruger
2016
Analia Saban + Guy Dill
2015
Alison Saar + Allen Ruppersberg
2014
Cameron Grey + Don Bachardy
2013
Larry Bell + John Van Hamersveld
2012
David Trulli
2011
Eddie Ruscha
2010
Gwynn Murrill
2009
Kenny Scharf
2008
Kenny Harris
2007
Gajin Fujita
2006
Raymond Pettibon
2005
Patssi Valdez + Robert Graham
2004
Laddie John Dill + Robbie Conal
2003
Tom Wudl + Scott Grieger
2002
Ken Price + Matt Groening
2001
Mark di Suvero
2000
Astrid Preston + Richard Serra
1999
David Hockney
1998
Joe Goode + Caryl Davis
1997
Karen Carson
1996
Ed Moses + Gronk
1995
Chuck Arnoldi + Carol Doumani
1994
Tony Berlant + Renee Petropoulos
1993
Betye Saar + Sam Francis
1992
John Baldessari + Peter Shire
1991
Lita Albuquerque + Sylvia Salazar Simpson
1990
Peter Alexander + Jeffrey Vallance
1989
Richard Diebenkorn + Laddie John Dill
1988
Ed Ruscha + Michelle Roberts
1987
Jonathan Borofsky
1986
Sandra Mendehlson
1985
Rubin Carlos Almaraz
1984
Billy Al Bengston
1983
David Hockney
1982
Sam Francis
1981
Helen K. Garber + Kwaku Alston + Lynda Lester-Slack + Aline Smithson + Robert Sturman

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