VSW Salon Salon Spring 2026
March 27: In Dialogue: Collaborations with Charles Gaines
Film still from "An Arrangement without Tormentors," Music composed by Charles Gaines, Performed by Charles Gaines and Nora Mulder, Directed by Edgar ArceneauxIn Dialogue: Collaborations with Charles Gaines
Friday, March 27, 7-9 pm
$10, in-person [tickets]
Charles Gaines is a renowned conceptual artist whose practice spans five decades. Gaines is known for using systematic approaches to his work as a way of visualizing underlying social constructs in language, history and race. He is the subject of an exhibition at RIT, curated by Ellen Tani, who is an Assistant Professor of Art and is currently developing a book about Gaines. This program will feature works by and in collaboration with Charles Gaines alongside films and videos that Tani has selected from the VSW collections.
VSW program funders include The New York State Council on the Arts with support from the New York State Legislature, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, and Monroe County, NY.