New Abstract Paintings by Matthew Dibble to Debut

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CLEVELAND — August 30, 2010 — On Friday, September 17, Arts Collinwood Gallery will showcase recent abstract paintings from Cleveland artist Matthew Dibble in a solo exhibition titled “Hope for the Picture Guild.” The paintings will be on display through October 17.

For this show, works were selected by Del Rey Loven, Director, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, Akron University.

Loven explains, “Matt Dibble gets his work to come to life in the painting process. He creates space there, in the paintings, that’s all it’s own … Dibble puts color upon color, shape upon shape in a manner that is both first rate craftsmanship and high-risk aesthetic adventurism. I selected these paintings because they represent Matt at the top of his game.”

Steven Litt, winner of the 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize and critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, commented in a recent review, “Dibble has oceans of energy and a great deal of visual intelligence.”

French collector and critic Christian Schmitt (www.espacetrevisse.com), said of Dibble’s abstract work, “Painter of the absolute, M. Dibble requires that art reveal to him the absolute of being. This is why his abstracts are ravaged by an abundance of impulses. The massiveness, debauchery and violence of the brush strokes seem to violently provoke the paint so that the hidden, the unsaid, is unveiled.”

Douglas Max Utter, noted Cleveland artist, critic, and editor of e-zine Giraffe Trap (www.giraffetrap.com), commented, “For a painter’s painter like Dibble, versed in the tensions of modernist work from Cezanne to DeKooning, the central activity of his art is to choreograph an ever more intense dance involving these two eternally incompatible partners [drawing and painting].”

Dibble’s work has been exhibited at various venues such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, www.tregoningandco.com S.P.A.C.E.S., and the Butler Institute of American Art. His paintings and drawings reside in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and France.

Arts Collinwood is located at 15601 Waterloo Rd. in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. For more information, visit www.artscollinwood.org. For more information on Matthew Dibble, please visit www.dibblepaintings.com.


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