Jim Dine
BIO
Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1935. He grew up working in his family’s hardware store, and the tools that fascinated him there as a child would later appear in his art.
Dine attended the University of Cincinnati, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in 1957. In 1959 he moved to New York City, where he collaborated with artists to create “happenings,” or performance art. Dine’s paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures often examine ordinary objects. In the 1970s, Dine made a series of paintings of an empty bathrobe, which he said looked like him. He has also used the image of a heart repeatedly in his work, turning it into his own personal icon.
Dine’s work can be found in museums around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Saint Louis Art Museum; the Montreal Museum of Art, Quebec, Canada; the Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia. His work has also been exhibited
in over one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Gallery Beaubourg, Paris, France; and Wildenstein, Tokyo, Japan.
ART
Jim Dine has been intrigued by the story of Pinocchio for much of his life. In recent years he has explored the temptations, trials and tribulations of the mischievous wooden boy through a series of drawings, prints and sculptures. Like Geppetto, the puppet’s fictional creator, Dine brings Pinocchio to life. The artist believes “the idea of a talking stick becoming a boy, is like a metaphor for art.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ABOUT THE SCULPTURE

Big White Gloves, Big Four Wheels, 2008
Painted Bronze
175.5″ x 135″ x 68.25″
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Scarecrow, 2006 Tom Claassen
Untitled (Two Rabbits), 2004 Jonathan Clarke
Lifestyle, 2006 Niki de Saint Phalle
Adam & Eve, 1985-1989 Jim Dine
Big White Gloves, Big Four Wheels, 2008 Mark di Suvero
Aesop’s Fables, 1990 Jean-Michel Folon
Voyage, 1999 Laura Ford
Bird, 2007 Keith Haring
Untitled (Ringed Figure), 1987 Käi
Love Vs. Money, 2017 Fernand Léger
Femmes Au Perroquet, 1952 Aristide Maillol
La Riviere, 1938 – 1943 Ju Ming
Tai Chi Singlewhip, 1998 Igor Mitoraj
Eros Bendato, 1999 Julian Opie
Kiera & Julian Walking, 2002
Bruce & Sara Walking, 2007 Tom Otterness
Kindly Geppetto, 2001 Mimmo Paladino
Zenit, 1999 Martin Puryear
Untitled (Bench), 2008 George Rickey
Four Rectangles Oblique, 1979 Tony Smith
Night, 1962 Bernar Venet
2 Arcs X 4, 230.5 Degree, Arc X 5, 1999-2000 Erwin Wurm
Big Suit, 2010 Kan Yasuda
Door of Return, 2001 Jack Youngerman
Samarkand, 1981