PRESS RELEASE
Dina Wind: Palette Knife Paintings
On view: private virtual gallery at bridgettemayergallery.com, from November 13 – December 31, 2020
Artist Talk: Friday, November 13, 2020 at 5:30pm EST
The Bridgette Mayer Gallery is proud to present, for the first time, an exclusive virtual exhibition of sculptor Dina Wind’s (1938-2014) early palette knife paintings. The paintings are available to view online for a select group of clients and those interested in Dina Wind’s work in a private virtual gallery at bridgettemayergallery.com.
On November 13th, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery presented the latest in a series of virtual private artist talks to safely promote connectedness and art appreciation. Mayer was joined by John Wind, Dina’s son and President of the Dina Wind Art Foundation and William R. Valerio, PhD, the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere Art Museum, in an interactive discussion of Dina Wind’s palette knife paintings. Though Dina was primarily a sculptor, she created a series of palette knife paintings in the late 1960s and 1970s under the tutelage of renowned art teacher and Group '55 organizer Sam Feinstein. For this event, Mayer, Wind, and Valerio discussed the influence of Feinstein, Group '55, and Abstract Expressionism on Dina Wind's early works. These palette knife paintings allude to her later explorations of space and form as a sculptor. This was a private, interactive Zoom artist talk recorded on Friday, November 13th at 5:30pm EST.
