SOMA – Venus with Rope

SOMA

Convention Plaza

3rd Street Between Howard and Folsom

“Venus with Rope”

Jim Dine

1986

Jim Dine has shown up in this site before.  In 1962 Dine’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first “Pop Art” exhibitions in America. These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed modern Art forever, “Pop Art”.

Dine’s attention turned to sculptural work in the early 1980s when he created sculptures based on the sculpture Venus de Milo.

Donated to the City by the Developer of Convention Plaza Office Complex.