June 19 - September 4, 2010
WORK FROM THE SAME HOUSE:
A Collaboration between Jim Dine and Lee Friedlander
Opening Reception
Saturday, June 19, 2010
From 5 - 8 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Dallas, TX
Lee Friedlander and I met in 1962. He gave me a photograph of Cincinnati without knowing that I am from there. We have been exchanging things all the time since then. Friendship and pictures. Our work is from the same house. He always understands my words." - Jim Dine, London 1969
Jim Dine and Lee Friedlander collaborated on a significant portfolio, Work From the Same House, in 1969. The portfolio features pairings of photographs by Friedlander and etchings by Dine. This group of prints was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York the same year.
Friedlander and Dine's partnership emphasized the influence photography had on the art scene in the 1960's. Photography was about the world in which we lived at the time. Subjects concerned the post-Kennedy decade: cars, suburban landscapes, war, consumerism. Many of the key figures in the sixties art scene were using photography, including Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince to name a few.
From the sixties forward, photography has continued to be what we now consider a commonly respected artist's tool of expression.
Lee Friedlander had a major retrospective in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art. PDNB Gallery's exhibit features some of Friedlander's most significant photographs that were included in that retrospective.
