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Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford GallerySelected Works
Untitled, 1975, pencil and pastel on blue paper, by Jim Dine. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gift from the Jim Dine Art Trust.
Mark Hampton, Two Years Before He Died, 1997, charcoal and pastel on folded brown paper. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gift of the Artist.
About
Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, represents the first exhibition to focus on Dine’s portrayal of his family and friends. Featuring more than fifty works—donated by Dine to the Museum—spanning a period from 1957 to the present, the show also examines Dine’s deep engagement with drawing, his technique of choice for portraiture. Dine observes: “Drawing is the medium which has been the blood of my life.” The metaphor is explicit in his portraits. Often working over extended periods, Dine creates powerful analogies between the materiality of his likenesses and the subject depicted. Distressed and collaged paper evokes human skin and the imprint of experience and emotion upon the face. Dine’s commitment to precision—to an ongoing process of erasure and reworking made visible to the viewer—endows each page with evidence of movement, of breath, of lives lived. In short, through Dine’s portraiture, we observe the ongoing presence of a past that exerts its power upon the artist and upon his audience.
The exhibition is supported by the Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue by Jim Dine and Anne Collins Goodyear, published by Steidl.
Programming
Artist's Talk with Jim Dine
Jim Dine was joined by his wife, Diana Michener, and Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Anne Collins Goodyear in a discussion about his work and process.
February 23, 2024
Enjoy this recording of a discussion with artist Jim Dine
Deeply engaged with the “human comedy,” Jim Dine, internationally known artist and poet, discussed his work and process in a talk presented in conjunction with the exhibition, “Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest,” on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through June 2, 2024. Jim was joined by his wife, Diana Michener, and Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Anne Collins Goodyear.
Organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, “Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest” represents the first exhibition to focus on Dine’s portrayal of his family and friends. Featuring more than fifty works—donated by Dine to the Museum—spanning a period from 1957 to the present, the show also examines Dine’s deep engagement with drawing, his technique of choice for portraiture.
Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
Recorded in the Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine on Friday, February 23, 2024.
Press
"At Bowdoin, drawings entrance and Asian American art is reframed," Portland Press Herald, April 28, 2024
"Drawing portraits across and through time: Jim Dine’s “Forgotten Harvest,” Bowdoin Orient, March 1, 2024
"The Invincible Jim Dine On Drive, Draftsmanship and His Own Mortality," Observer, January 2, 2024
"New Art Museum Show Shares a Lifetime of Jim Dine Portraits", Bowdoin College, November 30, 2023