Jean Dibble

Associate Professor
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
Director of Graduate Studies

Degrees

B.S., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin; M.A., University of New Mexico

Research Profile

Dibble had a large retrospective of the last 20 years of her portraiture in 2006, work made simultaneously with numerous other bodies of work. The newest body of work involves the placement of her own painted portraits into the work of other artists from the documented past by digitally manipulating both and finally printing the digital file as a photogravure.  This group of photogravures is called "Embedded" and is a way of challenging the viewer with the rich entanglement of the present and our remembered cultural past.  By setting a person from our time into someone else's work or idea, an invisible structure becomes visible: the influence of the work of the past upon the present.  The intention is to create a simlutaneous recognition of and framework for the fractured, multi-layered present.  Her models and her work are "embedded" into the cultural past.  Similarly, that earlier work is now recast through its interaction with a contemporary face. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. 

Contact Information

302 Riley Hall
631-5244
dibble.1@nd.edu