Cleveland, OH, United States
Matthew Dibble spent decades in the construction business, and approaches his art like a true trades...
About the artist
Joined In 2011
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About the artist
Joined In 2011
(3327 Followers)
Matthew Dibble spent decades in the construction business, and approaches his art like a true tradesman: with watchful attention and professional confidence, he composes gesturally abstract and figural paintings marked by creative choreography. He attended Cleveland’s former defiantly inspiring Cooper School of Art, and has marched to his own drummer ever since graduating in 1978. Dibble’s ongoing body of work includes original, nuanced reactions to both modern and postmodern sensibilities, with as few aesthetic or philosophical pretensions as possible. A fascination with gesture and action continues to underlie his large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings, while his figurative work deploys distorted, other-worldly creatures across layered surfaces that fascinate. His work has long displayed this double trajectory, in which expression moves towards meaning in the abstracts and also in the counterbalancing figural work—as if the right and left hemispheres of his brain were performing an intricate dance.
Graduated 1978 from Cooper School of Art in Cleveland.
Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition, Global, 22 May-5 June 2022
Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition, Global, 8-29 November 2021
Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, "Levels of Abstraction", new work from 5 artists, Charlotte, NC May 2021
Lyons Wier Gallery, on line exhibition "Chrysalistasis" new work from 50 artists, curated by James Austin Murray_New York, NY June 2020
First Street Gallery, Solo Exhibition "Legendary Bog"
New York, NY January 2019
First Street Gallery, Group Show "Borderlines: Redefining Boundaries" New York, NY July, 2018
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
November 9-12 2017
The Painting Center, Group Exhibition "Kindred Spirits" New York, NY November 2017
Tregoning and Company, Solo Exhibition "Puzzled Bipeds" Cleveland, OH May 2017
First Street Gallery, Solo Exhibition "Useful Pressures"
New York, NY January 2017
First Street Gallery "Artists Choose Artists" New York, NY April 2016
Greenville Center For Creative Arts "Kindred Spirits" Greenville, SC April 2016
First Street Gallery "Under the Influence" New York,NY
September 2015
Bruno Casiano Gallery “Pioneer Driven Mad” Cleveland, OH April 2015
First Street Gallery,...
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