Jim Dine Painting with the Carver

"I did a lot of meditation with the carving. I love the carving. It’s tedious and it irritates my throat but it’s like a conversation with yourself for hours."

This soft-back publication explores a body of work made by Jim Dine during an intense period of carving woodblocks. Dine has frequently used power-tools to grind, scrape and carve his woodblocks and Painting with the Carver features woodcuts made by Dine with a chainsaw and motorised chisel. The resulting body of over 30 works, features some of Dine’s most expressive motifs, with a particular focus on bathrobes.

Large-scale imagery reveals prints made with a combination of woodcut and digital printing, which have been hand-painted in gouache, charcoal, oil or enamel paint. Images which fold out, include Dine’s largest print to date, a monumental black woodcut on paper painted by Dine in silver depicting tools, details of which adorn the book cover, and a folding screen made from five joining panels.

These works are discussed in a conservation between Jim Dine, master printers, Gabi Pechmann and Christoph Chavanne, David Cleaton-Roberts and Helen Waters from Cristea Roberts Gallery, and Daniel Clarke from Jim Dine’s studio, which took place at the Steindruck Studio, Apetlon, Austria.

Publisher: Cristea Roberts Gallery 
Published: 2020