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For many years, Anna Dibble worked in the animation studios of Disney, Marvel, and Hanna Barbera. Some of the television and theatrical productions she worked on in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Manhattan: The Black Cauldron, Transformers, Tron, Flintstones, Dungeons and Dragons, and The Electric Company.
She was also a freelance writer, co-designer and composer of animated shorts for Children's Television Workshop's Sesame Street. For over 30 years, Dibble - primarily a self trained artist - has exhibited her animal paintings, drawings and sculpture in solo and group exhibitions in New England galleries and cultural centers.
"I was raised in a Vermont village, and lived with raccoons, a sparrow hawk, great blue heron, reptiles, and a convoluted sequence of domestic animals - including human. I drew, read, and wrote plays and puppet scripts for community productions. My early life is the foundation for my art and writing.
The evolving bestiary in my paintings is inspired by my work in the world of animation, a lifelong love of comics and cartoons, natural history, and the art and stories of indigenous cultures. I like to compare human behavior and traits with those of the other animals, seeking similarities and differences. Amalgamated or hybrid animals have been my subject since a childhood fascination with the Duckbilled Platypus. Juxtapositions and paradoxes are the main themes. Food plays an important element, as does a prejudiced view of our nonsensical human condition. I think of my work as being like the Trickster character in myth, who is the spirit of the in-between, the crossroads, the melding of opposite traits."
She was also a freelance writer, co-designer and composer of animated shorts for Children's Television Workshop's Sesame Street. For over 30 years, Dibble - primarily a self trained artist - has exhibited her animal paintings, drawings and sculpture in solo and group exhibitions in New England galleries and cultural centers.
"I was raised in a Vermont village, and lived with raccoons, a sparrow hawk, great blue heron, reptiles, and a convoluted sequence of domestic animals - including human. I drew, read, and wrote plays and puppet scripts for community productions. My early life is the foundation for my art and writing.
The evolving bestiary in my paintings is inspired by my work in the world of animation, a lifelong love of comics and cartoons, natural history, and the art and stories of indigenous cultures. I like to compare human behavior and traits with those of the other animals, seeking similarities and differences. Amalgamated or hybrid animals have been my subject since a childhood fascination with the Duckbilled Platypus. Juxtapositions and paradoxes are the main themes. Food plays an important element, as does a prejudiced view of our nonsensical human condition. I think of my work as being like the Trickster character in myth, who is the spirit of the in-between, the crossroads, the melding of opposite traits."
