Pop Art Pioneer Jim Dine’s New Show Hearkens Back to His Origins as an Innovator

Dine expresses his fascination with the tensions between abstraction, two-dimensional representation, and the presence of things.

Copyright Peter Clough
Jim Dine, 'The Studio (Landscape Painting),' 1963, oil on canvas with wooden shelf and painted glass, tin, ceramic, and wood. 61" × 108-1/2" × 10-3/4". Copyright Peter Clough

‘Jim Dine: The 60’s’
125 Newbury, 395 Broadway, New York
March 15 through April 20
, 2024

A pioneer of pop art and one of the early instigators in the “Happening” movement, Jim Dine, is probably best known for his “heart” series. Once as ubiquitous as Keith Haring’s dancing figures, they have perhaps misdirected attention away from a 60-year career rich with other pioneering work. Mr. Dine, who by his own admission is compulsively productive, has been especially prolific since the pandemic, churning out drawing, painting, and even monumental sculpture. 

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