Jim Dine: Photographs
UCR / California Museum of Photography

Jim Dine is one of the most well-known artists from the last forty years of American art. He is widely recognized as a key player in Pop Art, Happenings, and the resurgence of printmaking. Dine became a familiar figure in the post-World War II art world for his iconic hearts, tools and robes that appeared repeatedly in paintings, prints and sculptures. Much less known, however, are his more recent works, a series of enigmatic photographs, which provide a unique opportunity to examine a diverse aspect of the career of this major American artist. (continue essay)

(This exhibition was organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and was sponsored by Lynn Meyers-Gordon. On exhibition at UCR/California Museum of Photography November 18, 2000 to March 11, 2001.)

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