DINA IN THE 90's PART 2: 1995 - 1999

August 2 - October 14, 2024
  • The Big Idea: Brooches for Buildings Dina enjoyed a playful dialogue with her jewelry designer son John, interpreting his signature...
    The Big Idea: Brooches for Buildings Dina enjoyed a playful dialogue with her jewelry designer son John, interpreting his signature brooches, double brooches, and scatter pins into relief sculptures 'pinned' to the wall.
  • 'In this new series, the artist transforms materials such as scrap metals and found tools into almost jewel-like assemblages. Placed...
    "In this new series, the artist transforms materials such as scrap metals and found tools into almost jewel-like assemblages. Placed in clusters on the wall as if pinned on a giant bosom, the works are at once playful and elegant, exploring a rich interplay of shadow, texture, and line." - Press Release from Nexus Gallery, 1996
  • ARCHIVE DISCOVERY: Acclaimed architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown visited Dina's 1996 exhibition and purchased one of her steel...
     
    ARCHIVE DISCOVERY: Acclaimed architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown visited Dina's 1996 exhibition and purchased one of her steel assemblages, Archer.
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  • 'Welding the discarded elements transforms them and creates a new experience for the viewer. The heavy metals become decisively light...
    "Welding the discarded elements transforms them and creates a new experience for the viewer. The heavy metals become decisively light and airy playing a positive/negative illusion with the lines that flow in space and define the composition" - Dina Wind
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    1996 - Gallery Opening and After Party with Family and Friends (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
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    1996 - Gallery Opening and After Party with Family and Friends

  • The Big Idea: Gone Fishing — While Dina typically approached her sculptures formally, concentrating on composition, materiality, and the aesthetics...
    The Big Idea: Gone Fishing — While Dina typically approached her sculptures formally, concentrating on composition, materiality, and the aesthetics of abstraction, for this show the theme of fish and the sea was both prominent and productive. The complex and expansive tableaux continue the path towards her installation art of the 2000’s.

     

    Pictured: School of Salmon, with Roe 
  • 'Wind's sculpture is powerful yet humble; tough and tender; lyrical and blunt. Her assemblages show us the importance of art...
    "Wind's sculpture is powerful yet humble; tough and tender; lyrical and blunt. Her assemblages show us the importance of art for making sense out of the confusion of life and its artifacts in the late twentieth century." - Ann Sargent-Wooster, artist and writer
  • In 1997, Dina published “Dina Wind: Metal Sculpture”, the first catalog of her work. This self-published monograph features an essay...
     In 1997, Dina published “Dina Wind: Metal Sculpture”, the first catalog of her work. This self-published monograph features an essay by Ann-Sargent Wooster, and captures the artist at a creative peak. 
  • 'Wind's work builds on the traditions of Dadaism, Surrealism, found objects and readymades...Wind speaks the usually unheard inner language of...
    "Wind's work builds on the traditions of Dadaism, Surrealism, found objects and readymades...Wind speaks the usually unheard inner language of objects and makes it audible for all to hear." - Excerpt from an essay by Ann-Sargent Wooster
  • Captured Vision, Philadelphia Sculptors at Washington Square, Washington DC. Dina showed with Philadelphia Sculptors a half-dozen times over the course...
    Captured Vision, Philadelphia Sculptors at Washington Square, Washington DC. Dina showed with Philadelphia Sculptors a half-dozen times over the course of a decade, actively supporting its mission of establishing more opportunities for Philadelphia area artists.  
  • Silvia White was a pioneering California gallerist, with spaces in both Santa Monica and New York City. She fell in...
    Silvia White was a pioneering California gallerist, with spaces in both Santa Monica and New York City. She fell in love with Dina’s work and in 1999 presented a large solo show at her New York gallery, and included smaller works in a group show on the West Coast.