Ellen Tani’s book Charles Gaines: Black Conceptualism and the Poetics of Systems will be the first academic monograph on the conceptual artist Charles Gaines. It will frame Gaines’s artwork—which spans drawings, sculptures, performance, and installation—via his engagement with systems.
Ellen Tani is assistant professor of Art History at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the conceptual practices of African American and Asian American artists. Her art historical writing mobilizes theories of critical race and mixed-race studies, Black studies, feminism, and disability culture.