• Canine Conundrums: New Paintings
• Artist Statement for Canine Conundrums
• Giclee Collages
• Artist Bio

Canine Conundrums: New Paintings

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Canine Conundrums Statement by Anna Dibble

This series of paintings is my attempt to follow some of my questions about art and about dogs and people.  Making art and living with dogs are ventures supported by questions.  Often I feel the way my dog Pepper looks when she’s chasing her tail, and yet,  year after year of swiping the brush into the paint and over the paper or board, scraping back layers and building parts of them up again,  I do progress in ways, even though I’m left with even more questions.

I live in a comfortable pack of two canines and two primates.  I think a lot about how people look at dogs and relate to them, and imagine how dogs might look at us.  I’m constantly surprised by the dogs.  Often surprised that they are dogs!  No matter how much I fight it intellectually, in some ways I think of them as four legged hairy dog people.  I even guess that the dogs think they are part human – which is ridiculous.

Compared to the other animals, humans often behave in absurd, contradictory, confusing ways.  Our lives are like Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.  Everything is upside down, backwards, magical, terrible, beautiful, funny and nonsensical all at the same time.  Life with dogs is my current metaphor for this condition.  Dogs and humor seem to suit the insanity in the world around us.

When I paint and draw I try to work towards a balance of intuition and reason.  I hope for more intuition and less reason because it’s a lot more interesting.  I play with the materials and try to learn how they work for me and against me.  I strive to trust myself and follow some sort of instinct that feels mostly like a bunch more questions.  Which is okay with me.  Conundrums.

Giclee Collages

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Artist Bio:

Anna Dibble has been a professional artist for 35 years.  During her career she has displayed a high level of skill in a wide range of arts, including painting, sculpture, animation, musical composition, theatrical set design, and writing.  As an animator, her art has been enjoyed by millions of adults and children through her work with major film and television companies including: The Walt Disney Company, Hanna Barbera, and Sesame Street.  Some of her projects include ‘‘The Black Cauldron’’ for Disney, ‘‘The Flintstones,’’ ‘‘Tron,’’ and ‘‘Transformers’’ for Hanna Barbera, and over 15 animated spots for Sesame Street.

Recently, Anna has returned to her native state of Vermont to focus on her fine art career.  As a fine artist, Anna’s work reflects the strong connection between humans, other animals, and the natural world. She is drawn to the art of ancient societies, and their myths and legends.  Using these sources as influence, Anna attempts to invent her own myths and metaphors.  Her latest work celebrates the relationship of dogs with people and has been inspired by new four-legged addition to her family.

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