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James Dinerstein, a Harvard graduate, has exhibited several of his pieces around the country. Canon, with its ribbon intricacies and inner passages, bears a corporeal resemblance to an earlobe. Common to Dinerstein's works of art, suggestions of bodily features provoke lyrical images among his audience. Canon has been remarked upon as the culmination of a musical instrument, a musical composition, and its musician.
A shift in the focus of sculptural form in James Dinerstein’s portfolio of work is ushered in by For Instance, where artistic investigation of the cupping and shaping of space urged the opening up of the form from its previously compact state. However, the sculpture does not stray from the artist’s body of work in its supple use of clay as a plastic medium. The smoothly formed elements of the sculpture cleave their way through space and create a sense of unease through their precarious placement. Allowing the horizontal to reach out and up for the vertical and then to envelop it, Dinerstein has found a new set of sculptural problems to explore. He has stated, “It was in For Instance, that this tense, highly compressed space became all but literally uncoiled and radically opened out.”
James Dinerstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Harvard University where he studied with art historian Michael Fried and philosopher Stanley Cavell. He then studied sculpture at St. Martin’s Art School in London with notable sculptors Anthony Caro and William Tucker. For the past fifteen years, Dinerstein has regularly exhibited in New York, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and other American cities. He is currently represented by Salander-O’Reilly Gallery in New York where a major exhibition of his bronze sculptures was shown in September of 2001. Two of Dinerstein’s cast bronze sculptures, Canon, 1991, and Still Speech, 2000, are on view at Grounds For Sculpture in the park and by the terrace of Rat’s Restaurant, respectively.
More information on this artist can be found at www.jimdinerstein.com. |
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Canon, 1991
cast bronze
91" x 49" x 16"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. |
