Edith Dines

Edith Dines Kamrowski was an American artist known for her innovative approach to abstraction. She developed a unique technique using rolling pins wrapped in textured rubber forms, which she inked or applied with oil to create dynamic, layered compositions. Her work gained early recognition and was featured in the groundbreaking 1952 Abstract Art is Reality exhibition at the Detroit Artists Market. The show was organized by renowned Futurist collector Lydia Winston Malbin, a key figure in advancing abstract art in Detroit alongside Hilla Rebay, co-founder of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (originally the Museum of Non-Objective Art) in New York. In 1948, Dines married Gerome Kamrowski (1914–2004), a pioneering artist in the American Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist movements and a professor of fine art at the University of Michigan. That same year, Kamrowski’s work was exhibited at the prestigious Betty Parsons Gallery, a hub for the emerging Abstract Expressionist movement. The couple later divorced in 1962. Dines' work was featured in a photographic profile by The Ann Arbor News on July 29, 1954, highlighting her artistic process. She exhibited extensively in both the United States and Europe throughout the 1950s and 1960s, contributing to the evolving dialogue of mid-century abstraction.