Moreover, Gaines's artistic output has been greatly influenced by the composer and artist John Cage's use of chance and indeterminacy; the repetitive, minimal compositions of Steve Reich; and his own background as a jazz percussionist. (hammer.ucla.edu)
His reductive palette, shaped canvases and minimal compositions in the 1960s led to his paintings being included alongside those of Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Ryman and Frank Stella in a seminal exhibition at the Kay Mar Gallery that led to the development of Minimalism. (davidrichardgallery.com)
Also creating new work for the exhibition is Adam Pendleton, whose Black Dada works draw on traditions of absurdist poetry with minimal compositions based on letters, lines and shades of black, both abiding by and resisting historical concepts of language as image or material. (jacktworkov.com)