Informed by principles of aesthetics, color, line, shape, form, and composition, the works are grounded in an abstraction-based oil painting practice. Subject matter varies and overlaps weaving ideas of place, adolescence, and peripheral vision. Bursting with color and energy, these balance intensity with delicate human experience. The ceramics practice is ever evolving, in addition to the painting practice, primarily utilizing under-glazing techniques. As of lately, the work has focused on more specific marks; symbols like tangerines, juice boxes, and bricks.
Bio
Dina Cline is a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, ceramic sculpture, and installation. Her practice engages affect, abstraction, and material systems, examining how emotional and psychological states circulate through images, objects, and contemporary environments. Moving between large-scale paintings and intimate sculptural forms, her work explores optimism, precarity, and accumulation within late-capitalist life.
Cline has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions including Blurred Optics at Brewery Artist Compound (Los Angeles), Train Tracks at Spring Break Art Fair (New York), and Juiced at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been presented at venues and programs including Hauser & Wirth (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, SCOPE Miami, the Louise Nevelson Chapel (New York), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bangkok, Thailand), Wailoa Center (Hilo, HI), Art Project Paia (Paia, HI).
She has participated in residencies and professional programs with the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Ox-Bow School of Art, The New Art School Modality, NYC Crit Club, and The Poor Farm Experiment. She will attend a residency at Monte Azul Center for the Arts in Costa Rica in mid-2026. Her work has been supported by grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, CERF+, the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, and the State of Hawai‘i, and is held in multiple private collections. Cline received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023 and a BA in Visual Art and Philosophy from BSU.
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