Dina Wind’s studio art practice began under the tutelage of Philadelphia-born artist Sam Feinstein, during weekly classes she attended in the early 1970s at his Chancellor Street studio. Himself a student, and later colleague of Abstract Expressionist master Hans Hofmann, Sam introduced Dina to abstraction, to Hofmann’s famous theory of push and pull, and to working with a palette knife to apply paint to canvas in a very physical way.
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She embraced the complementary color theories of her teachers as well, keeping the eye moving by contrasting oranges and blues, yellows and purples, reds and greens. She found endless innovation within this structure, and immediately embraced creating non-objective, purely abstract art. Color, form, movement, and emotion are the elements she considered with each work, and which would help define a successful painting.
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Untitled (Lakeside View)
Acrylic on canvas
24.5 x 34.75" -
Dina continued painting through the decade, a period of intense personal discovery and fulfillment as an artist capable of producing beautiful, meaningful, and powerful works of art (all while raising a family and finding her way as a recent immigrant from Israel). She eventually left Sam’s studio, looking for more freedom and growth. Two subsequent bodies of work focused on hard edge and color field painting.
By the early 1980s, the lure of welded metal sculpture drew her undivided attention. But the dynamic texture and movement she created with palette knives and acrylic paint foreshadow her later 3-dimensional work, making Dina Wind’s Palette Knife paintings an important building block in the career of this vigorous, forward-thinking late 20th Century abstract artist~
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Join gallerist Bridgette Mayer, Woodmere Museum of Art Director and CEO William Valerio, and Dina's son John Wind in a fascinating discussion about Dina Wind's early paintings and the Philadelphia-based abstract art collective, Group 55, that inspired them.
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Untitled (Summer Afternoon)
Acrylic on canvas
20.75 x 26.75" -
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Untitled (Watery Reflections)
Acrylic on canvas
18.5 x 28.75" -
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Untitled (Coral Diving)
Acrylic on canvas
16.5 x 20.75" -
For inquiries about available work, contact Bridgette Mayer Gallery
bmayer@bridgettemayergallery.com +1.(215).413.8893
