Dine Jim (1935) Padgett Ron (1942) Biography
Jim Dine (1935 - ) is an artist affiliated with the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, although his work draws significantly from Abstract Expressionism and Dada assemblage and collage techniques. But Dine's association with Pop Art is problematic, and the artist prefers to emphasize the practical, gestural, and expressive characteristics of his work, rather than the mechanical, impersonal characteristics of Pop Art. Dine graduated from Ohio University in 1957, before continuing his artistic career in New York. He gained public recognition for his work on five events in the early 1960s, performing alongside Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow at the Judson and Reuben Galleries. Dine returned to painting, however, creating mixed media works and assemblages. He often affixed personal objects, such as his clothes, shoes, and tools, to his canvases. The artist also began to undergo psychoanalysis in 1962, arousing a strong interest in his own memories and the construction of identity, which led him to create works with series of objects that repeat themselves and that have a particular meaning for him, such as hearts, palettes and robes. Dine is known for his ability to combine the iconic and the personal in ways that evoke the expressive role of the artist as an individual. He works in diverse media, ranging from painting, drawing and mixed media to sculpture, photography, book illustration and printmaking. The artist currently lives and works between New York, NY and Walla Walla, WA. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.
