Talk: Avatars in the Art of Jim Dine with Freyda Spira at Yale University Art Gallery

Freyda Spira, the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings, discusses works on paper by the self-described Expressionist thinker Jim Dine. Dine’s extremely personal images demonstrate the workings of his unconscious, constructing what he has called an “autobiography through objects.” Throughout his nearly 70-year career, often propelled by different therapeutic experiences, the artist has created a lexicon of avatars—recurrent motifs that are intended to represent Dine himself, including everyday objects such as paintbrushes and garden tools. This discussion explores various avatars and how Dine enjoys the process and freedom he finds in making art that is always new, different, and changing.

Offered in conjunction with the permanent-collection installation Jim Dine: “This Is Me.” 

Meet by the central column in the Gallery

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