Charles Gaines is an accomplished writer and a distinguished faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts. He had his first solo exhibition in 1972 and over the past three decades has exhibited with Leo Castelli Gallery and John Weber Gallery. His works are included in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gaines is presently engaged in two projects entitled Drawings from the 'Explosion' Series and Manifestos, which will be on view at Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects and Kent Gallery, respectively. Gaines forces the viewer to encounter the limits of the imagination and look beyond to the incomprehensible vastness produced as an effect of meaning. His many works include the Disaster Narratives (1995), Randomized Text: History of Stars (2006-2007), and his seminal work, Airplanecrash Clock (1997-2007), which was most recently exhibited in the 52nd Venice Biennale. The artist explores the relationship between language and visual representation. Through the use of text in combination with installation, drawing and photography, Gaines explores linguistic structure creating metonymies. Viewed as a poetic conceptualist, Gaines utilizes these constructed metonymies to expose the politics of representation.