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Professor Charles has been featured in many gallery exhibits across the country. (Photo: Roland Dimaya)

Who are your favorite artists?

Two artists who are important to me are early modernist sculptors: Constantine Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi. Two painters I admire are Wassily Kandinsky, possibly the “father of abstract/nonobjective art” and the American artist Robert Rauschenberg famous for his combination painting-constructions.

What is your favorite book?

I can’t say I have one favorite book, as in literature, but “The Shape of Content” written by the mid-twentieth century American painter Ben Shahn had a great influence on me as a young art student and artist.

If you could have dinner with someone, dead or alive, who would it be and why?

John Updike, is much in mind, having died recently.  As a reader of many of his novels, his short stories and poems that have appeared in “The New Yorker” magazine over many years, I would like to have been able to talk with him about his work.

What is your favorite thing about Georgetown University?

I continue to be excited and look forward to seeing and discussing the many amazing things that my students have produced in the studio classes I teach.

If you weren't an artist, what would you be doing?

I would be a “green” architect or an industrial designer working for a company like Apple.

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