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Matthew Dibble
United States
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 42x32in
About this artwork
The graffiti-like drawings found on many laboriously inked medieval manuscripts -- not to mention the gargoyles perched on the gutters and eaves of otherwise gloriously abstract Gothic structures -- remind me of his haunted aesthetic dimension in the Bipeds images. Serious illustrations are the official “face” of a text or structure, but whimsical characters peeping out of capital letters, slithering and padding along the margins, are the personhood…
of the copyist monk, both confessional and artistic, offering creative comic relief and admitting messy, inadvertent human peevishness into sacred precincts. To be human is to transgress, to be bent into strange shapes -- like the animal sketched down-page in a well-known 14th century English Book of Hours, whose long neck is tied in an elaborate knot.
Matthew Dibble
United States
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Credentials
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« I’m trying to make something with heart and authenticity, flavored with experimentation and discovery. »
Having worked as a roofer for over 30 years, Dibble approaches his art like a true tradesman: with watchful attention and professional confidence. Versed in tensions of modernist work from Cezanne to De Kooning, he composes gesturally abstract paintings marked by creative choreography.
