Anna Dibble

My work is grounded in the wild, driven by how alienated from the ‘natural world’ we have become and what has occurred because of this. It’s an imaginary narrative about life on earth: from animals and plants in early oceans recorded in layers of rock to the current dysfunctional ecosystem discovered in the ice and land cores, and experienced in our daily planetary existence. It’s a personal mythology in a fictional world of non-linear, circular time. An amalgamation of Past, Present, Future. I’m interested in the speed and character of change generated by the rotations and seismic activity of the earth, the moon and tidal cycles, and how all of these are influenced by what we have done to our planet’s atmosphere, its inhabitants, and now even its tilt and rotation. All the interconnections.

The current series, ‘Intrepid Voyagers’ emerges from a sense that all living beings are refugees of a kind, and that we’re evolving more rapidly than we can imagine. We’re lost in many ways, searching for something elusive, something enlightening perhaps. The paintings address our strong biological urge to survive, hold hope and curiosity close to our hearts, and keep trying to follow unanswered questions, no matter the odds.

“Urge, and urge, and urge. Always the procreate urge of the world.” Walt Whitman – from Song of Myself

Anna Dibble – Bio

     Anna Dibble’s paintings have been featured in solo, group, and invitational exhibitions in museums, cultural centers, and galleries for over forty-five years:
Spaces include the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine;  Elizabeth Wilson Museum, Manchester, Vermont; Sarah Doyle Gallery of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Atrium Gallery of Bard College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Strathmore Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland; Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine;  A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts.  Dibble’s work is in private collections all over the United States.

Dibble is the Founding Director of ‘Gulf of Maine EcoArts’, a project-based artist collaborative.  She curated and raised funds for two large-scale installations:  ‘Majestic Fragility’, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine: September 2021 – January 2023.   ‘SeaChange: Darkness & Light in the Gulf of Maine’, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine: February 2023 – January 2024.