Although it's been decades since Jim Dine was a resident of the East End, one of his most iconic series came into being during a period from 1962 to 1968 when he lived in East Hampton.
The empty robe he chose as a subject in 1964 would become a recurring motif throughout his career, serving as portraits of self, others, or a generalized Everyman. Working on one of them in his East Hampton studio, Mr. Dine was captured on film by Hans Namuth in that key year.
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill has a large lithograph of the subject, "Self Portrait" from 1977, in its collection along with a few other multiples and unique works. But since August the artist's work has also had a featured role in the museum's outdoor sculpture exhibition "Field of Dreams."
Mr. Dine will participate in a live-streamed illustrated talk with Alicia G. Longwell, the Parrish's chief curator, Friday at 6 p.m. His works "The Hooligan" and "The Wheatfield (Agincourt)" will be on view through next August.
In the 1960s, the artist was an early contributor to both "Happenings" and Pop Art. In the sculptures on view, which were completed in 2019, he revisits subjects in his works from decades ago. These include the Venus de Milo in "The Hooligan," the idea for which started with a tourist statuette that the artist beheaded in the late 1970s. "The Wheatfield (Agincourt)" began in 1989 as a tractor axle with objects related to the themes of his career over six decades, but has been expanded to include new found objects.
Registration is available on the Parrish website.
