Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of prints by Jim Dine from the 70's through the 90's from April 22 through May 30th.

The show will include a selection of the artist's signature images including hearts, robes, tools, Venuses and flowers. Dine uses - and frequently combines- intaglio, lithography, woodcut and screenprint. The exhibition will feature several of his hand-colored prints. The gallery is located at 501 West 23rd Street at Tenth Avenue. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10-6; and Sundays from 12-5.

Jim Dine is recognized as one of the most important and innovative printmakers of our time. Since the early 60's, he has consistently acknowledged his robes, hearts and tools as the stand-ins of autobiography: the robe as self-portrait, the heart as a "cleaved, full object" associated with the emotions, tools as the utilitarian artifacts of his grandfather's hardware store in Cincinnati. These remain in the Dine iconography, treated as sensual physical objects or dematerialized as the symbols of Dine's private life. In the association of these themes with male and female roles, the robes, hearts and tools are the prototypes for Dine's expanded vocabulary of subjects, still characterized by their sexual references but now frequently paired or given a landscape context: trees, plants, flowers, and shells.

Jim Dine is recognized as one of the most important and innovative printmakers of our time. There will also be several of his hand-colored prints in the show.