Philbrook: Coded Imagery
This exhibition features abstract artworks by two of America’s most renowned Black artists: a colorful interpretation of a palm tree by Charles Gaines (b. 1944) and a pair of ghostly prints made directly from ironing boards by Willie Cole (b. 1955). The images are united by the curiously coded nature of their content. Gaines uses systems—math, a grid—to produce a sculptural work that both obscures and reveals an organic form. […]
