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MATT DIBBLE REVIEW BY KEN GRADOMSKI

MATT DIBBLE @ ASTERISK GALLERY
by About.com contributor, Ken Gradomski

What's the difference between Modern Art and Contemporary Art? Many think that there is no difference. Many others would strongly disagree claiming there certainly is a difference! To clarify, Contemporary Art is work created by living artists whereas the paradigm of Modernity and the production of Modern Art ended with the beginning of the Pop Art Movement in the 1950's. Contemporary work is actually difficult to find outside of the decorative paintings that usually inhabit most galleries whose only concerns are for sales and income. Those are not bad concerns in themselves...

However, there is a place in Tremont that exists only for exhibition, that is to say,to present the different facets of contemporary work created by local and residential artists without regard to ornamental marketability. Dana Depew, owner of the Asterisk Gallery and artist himself, will tell you that ‘the value of the Gallery far exceeds the payment’...of keeping it open. He will also inform you that when he started it eight years ago it was to be a ‘strictly exhibition’ space unconcerned with income from sales.’ He said he wanted a place whereby the artistic community and the community in general ‘benefits from excellent work and synergy.’

Currently on display at the Asterisk Gallery, 2393 Professor Avenue are 24 works by Mathew Dibble in a show he has entitled, ‘Equipping the Shop for Action.’ His works have primal power, filled with strong lines and figures that are both allusive and symbolic. Informed by what presents as a Formalistic Neo-Synthetic Cubism, the paintings are large and linear, the drawings small, but captivating. Rest assured that that description falls far short of the pure impact and presence he creates with this selection of his newest work on display. He harbors an ongoing and subterranean passion that he infuses into his lyrical lines on both paper and canvas. Mathew has been creating Art for more than thirty years and his work hangs in both private and corporate collections.

Shown above is Dibble's five-foot-two inch by six foot painting entitled, ‘Guardians Against Cold.’ It is a representative depiction of his heroic iconography and, according to Mathew, his most favored piece. He also has work on display at the Wooltex Gallery inside the Tower Press Building at 1900 Superior Avenue. Online information is available on Asterisk Gallery's Web site as well as on the Wooltex Gallery site. Information from the artist, himself can be obtained on Matthew Dibble's site. His work, the Asterisk Gallery and the Wooltex Gallery are all awaiting your visit.

SLIDESHOW AT MOCA - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 28th, 2009

Contacts:
Bethany Corriveau, Case Western Reserve University Graduate Art History Association
616-856-9187
bac76@case.edu

Amanda McCarthy, Case Western Reserve University Graduate Art History Association
216-403-0008
axs339@case.edu

Kathryn Fodor, Case Western Reserve University Graduate Art History Association
330-807-0013
kgf6@case.edu

CALL FOR ARTISTS:
The CWRU Graduate Art History Association invites art students from Northeast Ohio colleges and universities to submit work for presentation at STUDENT SLIDESHOW @ MOCA, Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
Monetary awards will be given to the top three artists selected by jurors Ann Albano of the Sculpture Center, Pam Jaffe of the Cleveland Foundation and Seema Rao of the Cleveland Museum of Art. For detailed submission guidelines, please see http://www.facebook.com/slideshowatmoca.

Submissions must be emailed to slideshowatmoca@gmail.com by September 25th, 2009. All selected participants must present the submitted work unless specific arrangements are made otherwise. Selected participants must provide a print out of their current schedule as proof of enrollment. Last years participants must submit a different body of work in order to reenter this year.

This event is made possible by the generosity of the CWRU Department of Art History and Art, the CWRU Friends of Art and MOCA Cleveland.

CITY ARTISTS AT WORK CELEBRATES 12 YEARS OF OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Dear Friends and Art Lovers,

CITY ARTISTS AT WORK CELEBRATES 12 YEARS OF OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Featuring over 47 artists and 5 galleries across 10 buildings, City Artists at Work – a seminal member of The Art Quarter will host its Open Studio event, free of charge, on Saturday September 12, from 12pm - 7pm, located along and adjacent to Superior Avenue, between East 18th and East 40th Streets.

Unique offerings this year include "Spicy Dames & Tales of Mystery", an exhibition of work by Mallorie Freeman on display in William Rupnik Gallery, #1A in The Loftworks building. Artefino will have a rotating exhibit of Tower Press artists and a CAAW artists exhibit will be on display in the lobby & second floor of The Plain Dealer building. Many artists will be demonstrating and providing hands on art projects for all ages.

Pick up an "Art is the Key" tag and key ring at any artist's studio. Bring the key ring with you as you tour CAAW studios & collect unique, free works of art, sized to fit your key ring and made especially for this event. The more studios you visit the bigger your key ring art collection will become.