Charles Kaiman

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHARLES KAIMAN'S NEW PAINTINGS AT BLUE MOUNTAIN

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New York, New York, April 1st 2025. Charles Kaiman exhibits new paintings at Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City, April 22 thru May 17th 2025. This is his twentieth one person show in New York City. Kaiman has been painting daily for the last sixty years. 

 

Kaiman has been mesmerized by the omnipresent moon in New Mexico since he moved there 20 years ago. This show reflects his persistent fascination with the moon’s vivid presence. He often stays awake all night painting and drawing moonlights. He is fascinated by the eternal visage of the moon whose presence has been here long before we were here and will be here long after we are gone.

 

Born in 1947 in the Bronx to two indulgent parents, Charles was allowed as a toddler to draw and paint on walls of his apartment. As a child prodigy, at the age of 12 and 13  he painted religious murals (6’ x 48’) for the Israel Community Center Synagogue in Levittown, New York. He attended the Art Students League, and studied with Jean Liberte at 13. After Liberte’s death several years later, he studied with Edwin Dickinson at the League as well. He also studied privately with Joseph DeMartini.

 

While searching for his approach, he combined his passion for Bel Canto opera and transposed his understanding of vocal production into painting. A collector of classic opera recordings, his studio is nearly always filled by magnificent arias as he paints. This musical quality of his art, the use of sequential pure tones, is demonstrated in his work. His focus while painting is on modulated tonal purity, using sequences of color-value.