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It’s been said that even the angels ache for a body, sometimes. If I did figurative work what would it look like? I asked myself this question often. I soon realized that figures were part of my work for many years, an ongoing series of pen and ink drawings.
Projecting them on larger canvases I was able to find many new compositions and entanglements. I’m often asked where the figures originate. There is an ache in my body, on the outside everything is calm the inside is much different.
The postures here are not meant to be literal. I’m trying to create an impression, as simply as possible that describes my two natures. One grasping and one allowing.
This is my situation, moment to moment, day to day and year to year. Where the figures in these paintings come from is a mystery. Dominating the scene, they emerge like rebellious children seeking attention from their elders
- Matt Dibble
It’s been said that even the angels ache for a body, sometimes. If I did figurative work what would it look like? I asked myself this question often. I soon realized that figures were part of my work for many years, an ongoing series of pen and ink drawings.
Projecting them on larger canvases I was able to find many new compositions and entanglements. I’m often asked where the figures originate. There is an ache in my body, on the outside everything is calm the inside is much different.
The postures here are not meant to be literal. I’m trying to create an impression, as simply as possible that describes my two natures. One grasping and one allowing.
This is my situation, moment to moment, day to day and year to year. Where the figures in these paintings come from is a mystery. Dominating the scene, they emerge like rebellious children seeking attention from their elders
- Matt Dibble
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April 7 - May 20
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GalleryTalk March 11th
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Distinguished Ohio Art scholar LAWRENCE WALDMAN will be offering a walking tour of the exhibition “FOR LOVE OF ZOAR: The Donald & Timothy Whitemyer Collection” at Tregoning & Company, this coming Saturday March 11th at 1pm in the afternoon. Refreshments will be served. Larry Waldman and Dr. Henry Adams are co-authoring the official history on Historic Zoar Village for its Bicentennial: a commune for religious Separatist German settlers in East Central Ohio founded in 1817. The Whitemyer family amassed the most important collection of artworks depicting Zoar and the rolling hills around it – including rare paintings by many important Cleveland School artists who painted there. In recent years noted Ohio artists were invited to do so as well, displaying their artworks in a juried annual exhibition. The 1st Prize winning paintings were acquired by the Whitemyers for their collection.
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This exhibition celebrates the Bi-centennial of Zoar Village’s founding in 1817.
Don Whitemyer assembled a fine collection of Zoar paintings executed by German-American artists best recognized as members of the generic ‘Cleveland School’: Adam Lehr, George Adomeit, August Biehle, Ferdinand Gottwald, William Sommer –all of whom delighted in weekends and trips away from Cleveland, enjoying illicit home-brewed spirits, camaraderie, and painting in both Zoar village and the adjacent countryside. Tim continued to expand the collection he inherited from his dad with purchases from the annual Whitemyer invitational show held in Zoar, made up of paintings depicting Zoar Village. Both men had close ties to Youngstown painter and Butler Museum director Clyde Singer; there are numerous paintings, drawings and prints by this American master as well represented in the Whitemyer Collection. |
Eterovich on Ideastream!
Listen to the T&Co interview here with Ideastreams' Dee Perry on The Sound of Applause! Perry speaks to curators Bill Tregoning of Tregoning & Company and the Cleveland Institute of Art's Bruce Checefsky about the work of Cleveland artist and educator Anthony Eterovich and the city-wide exhibition celebrating the centennial of his birth.
Catalogs for A Thrilling Act are available for purchase at T&Co. Follow the life and work of this great Cleveland artist with this retrospective exhibition booklet when you visit!
78th Street Studios - Third Friday Art Walks featured on WKYC 3
CLEVELAND -- The building is a former automotive factory and once was the American Greetings headquarters. Now the 78th Street Studios is the largest fine art complex of it's kind in Northeast Ohio and it's drawing artists and crowds to the Gordon Square art district every month. Although the building takes up the majority of a city block, it still feels like a hidden gem. Inside, 47 creative businesses occupy different creative spaces on three floors.
