Charles Hinman (born 1932) is an American artist renowned for pioneering the use of three-dimensional shaped canvases. Born in Syracuse, New York, Hinman attended Syracuse University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955. He initially pursued a career as a professional baseball player before an arm injury led him to focus fully on art. Hinman gained recognition in the mid-1960s for his innovative use of shaped canvases, which explore the interplay between real and illusory space. His works, often characterized by their geometric, sculptural forms, project from the wall and create a dynamic interaction between light, color, and shadow. This fusion of painting and sculpture places him at the forefront of Minimalism and shaped-canvas art movements. His early exhibitions at the Sidney Janis Gallery and his first solo show at Richard Feigen Gallery in 1964 helped establish his reputation. Throughout his career, Hinman’s works have been included in prominent exhibitions and acquired by major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has also been the recipient of prestigious awards, such as a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants. In recent years, his works continue to be celebrated for their exploration of dimensionality and form, with exhibitions like "The Shaped Canvas Revisited" in 2014 reaffirming his influence on modern art
$10,000
Charles Hinman, Minimalist Drawing, Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Signed
By Charles Hinman
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Untitled Minimalist Drawing (Mid-Century Modern), 1980 Pastel on off-white wove paper Signed in pencil and dated by the artist on the lower-right front. Jeffrey Fuller...
Pastel
$37,500
Winged City, Huge Original Painting on Shaped Canvas, Signed, 1983, 54x81x6 in.
By Charles Hinman
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed, dated and titled on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers w...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,500
"Alizarin Orionids" Charles Hinman, Work on Paper, Red Geometric Abstraction
By Charles Hinman
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Alizarin Orionids, 2003 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Throughout his long career, Charles Hinman has collapsed the divide between p...
Paper, Watercolor
$5,888
H 48 in W 60 in D 1.5 in
Cosmic Dance - Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Abstract, 48in x 60in
By Mario Angel
Located in Mississauga, CA
In "Cosmic Dance," Mario Angel offers a hauntingly beautiful study of collective movement and subconscious transit, utilizing his signature figurative abstraction to populate a dense...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,332
H 27.56 in W 31.5 in D 0.99 in
A Feast Day - Figurative Painting Black Red Yellow Green White Brown
By Omar Kamal El Din
Located in Sofia, BG
A Feast day - a painting by Maestro Omar Kamal El Din The painting is unframed. “The impressions of the paintings on the viewer is so mighty, mesm...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,780
H 30 in W 40 in D 1.5 in
Burrowed Beneath - Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Abstract, 30in x 40in
By Mario Angel
Located in Mississauga, CA
"Burrowed Beneath" stands as a compelling study of figurative abstraction, where the artist navigates the liminal space between the tangible world and the internal landscape of the p...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,200
H 35.03 in W 25.59 in D 0.1 in
Consistency and existence. Abstract mixed media painting
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Traces of lived experiences appear in On Hansen's works, exploring the possibilities of formal abstraction and seeking an organic experience between space and time through painting a...
Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite
$3,950
H 72 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Surprise" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 72 x 48 inch by Yoram Katz
By Yoram Katz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Surprise" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 72 x 48 inch by Yoram Katz Medium: Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas Size framed: 73 x 49 in ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Israel. Graduated from the...
Enamel
Polyptych from the Paper Series. Abstract painting
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Repetition, The temptation is always to believe in the stability, Consistency and existence and Faintly falling On Hansen bears the traces of lived experiences, exploring the possib...
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite
"Miracle bid"
By Madalena Zampassi
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This painting was created as a stylization of the beauty of a peacock. The painting is made with deep texturing and impasto. The painting combines elements of living nature combined ...
Paste, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,600
H 35 in W 76.5 in D 0.1 in
Abstract Triptych Painting, Minimalist, 2010, Unframed
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Repetition, The temptation is always to believe in the stability and Faintly falling On Hansen bears the traces of lived experiences, exploring the possibilities of formal abstracti...
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite
$2,400
H 35 in W 51 in D 0.1 in
Repetition and Faintly falling. Abstract mixed media paintings
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
On Hansen bears the traces of lived experiences, exploring the possibilities of formal abstraction, seeking an organic experience between space and time through painting and photogra...
Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite, Paper
$5,832
H 63.78 in W 51.19 in D 1.19 in
Together by Gaetan de Seguin - Contemporary Abstract painting
By Gaëtan de Seguin
Located in DE
Gaetan de Seguin paints figurative works, with an abstract character. The various colors highlight that not one person is the same, and his artworks celebrate this individuality in a...
Canvas, Acrylic
Aeolian Processes. Abstract mixed media painting
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Traces of lived experiences appear in On Hansen's works, exploring the possibilities of formal abstraction and seeking an organic experience between space and time through painting a...
Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor on Paper
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract expressionist gouache and watercolor on paper by noted artist Rolph Scarlett (1891-1984). Unframed. Signed and dated 1947 lower right. In excellent condition. Paper...
Paper, Watercolor
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H 12 in W 12 in
"Alizarin Orionids" Charles Hinman, Work on Paper, Abstract forms
By Charles Hinman
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Alizarin Orionids, 2003 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Throughout his long career, Charles Hinman has collapsed the divide between p...
Paper, Watercolor
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H 15 in W 15 in
"Red Orionids, " Charles Hinman, Abstract Red Orange Color Field, Contemporary
By Charles Hinman
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Red Orionids, 2003 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Charles Hinman’s paintings are explorations into the boundaries of abstraction through elaborate three-dimensional wood structures created with mathematical precision. Challenging his abstract expressionist predecessors, Hinman spearheaded the development of 1960s and 70s Abstract Minimal art by utilizing hard-edged canvases to move painting from a two-dimensional illusory space to a three-dimensional real space. What set Hinman apart from other contemporaries was his use of color, light, and time as his paintings reflect their hue onto the surrounding surface across varying levels of light. This juxtaposition places Hinman’s work at the intersection of the ideas explored by artists Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Al Loving, Dan Flavin, and James Turrell. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, Claudine Humblet states about Hinman's work: "From the very beginning of Hinman's adventure of construction […] the aim of the first structures was to address the challenge of inertia and the force of gravity, sometimes connected with the interpretation of the aesthetics of "primary structures" (structures by Donald Judd, Soll LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Robert Smithson were included alongside shaped works by Hinman, Insley and Sven Lukin in Art In Process. The Visual Development of a Structure, organized by the Finch...
Paper, Watercolor