Hinman is fascinated by the various ways in which three-dimensional geometic forms interact with the plane. ...(His) works recall the experiments with volume, space, and geometry initiated by the Constructivists nearly a century ago.

MICHAEL AMY New York 2005

Charles Hinman is important for a reason that eludes language but cannot be missed by attentive viewers: at every step of a career that began over four decades ago, he has offered endless opportunities to understand what it is to look and to make sense of what we see. These are subtle matters, yet the works…have an air of large purposes …They display, in a word, grandeur.

CARTER RATCLIFF New York 2004

While Minimalism may offer an historical context for this work, … Hinman is more historically aligned with Constructivism. …(His) new paintings are possessed by a true intelligence, an intelligence in which meaning becomes a discourse after the fact of experience, and where the physics of time and space also allude to the way brain waves connect in the sensorium of vision.

ROBERT C. MORGAN New York 2004

What Hinman achieves is rare: a romantic constructivism with classical means. ... the classical emphasizes limits, the romantic emphasizes possibilities. ...Geometry is the symbol of classicism, color of romanticism. His constructions...have the...paradoxicality...(which conveys) a fresh sense of possibility, or romantic faith in impossible possibilities.

DONALD KUSPIT New York 1996