At the Kreeger Museum, canvases that combine both painting and sculpture

Charles Hinman's solo exhibition and retrospective Structures, 1965-2014 is now on view at the Kreeger Museum, Washington DC.

"Hinman, who remains active at 86, arrayed blocks of bright, simple hues in crisp-edged compositions. He wasn’t the only one to do so; Ellsworth Kelly and many other painters of the hard-edge and color-field schools did the same thing. But Hinman was one of the first to build shaped canvases, abandoning the traditional rectangle in favor of irregular contours. The eccentric outlines of Hinman’s works are complemented by underlying armatures that give the pictures literal peaks and valleys."

- Mark Jenkins