GALLERY VII
“Canines and Primates”

“The daughter of a painter and naturalist” Anna “started drawing animals at an early age. At various times, she and her family lived with raccoons, a great blue heron, skunks, wood and box turtles, a sparrow hawk, as well as an ongoing collection of dogs, cats, snakes, frogs, salamanders and insects.”

Anna Dibble’s art grows out of her experiences growing up in rural Vermont and her work in animation studios in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. Dibble’s first solo show at the Southern Vt. Arts Center in 1973 launched a lifelong career working in many aspects of the arts. She has studied with prominent artists and teachers, designed sets for operas and plays, created characters for licensing programs, and worked in a wide variety of mediums. In the seventies and eighties she worked as an artist and writer for many animation companies, including Disney, Marvel, Hanna Barbera and Sesame Street. Independent films, the Flintstones, Transformers, and Wile E Coyote all influenced her art work. Dibble’s technique and media have changed over the past 35 years and she is currently creating a strange world where pondering foxes wear white button down shirts and jeans, dogs sit around tables having human/canine philosophical thoughts and conversations. Anna Dibble thinks of her work and its process as being like the Trickster character in myth who is the spirit of the in-between, the crossroads, the melding of opposite traits. With a strong shot glass of humor tossed into the mix. Anna has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Vermont and Massachusetts.

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