Michael Dubina

Tweet Michael Dubina has been an acclaimed painter of the midwestern landscape for over 20 years. While known for his large scale panoramic works, his newest landscape paintings are rendered in minute, evocative and visionary detail. These jewel-like works embody at once a sense of magic realism and an expansive, romantic expressionism. The images are painted with traditional oil techniques on the inside of matchbook covers, and are floated in over-sized black frames which compliment the physicality of the painted object. In Dubina's paintings one can sense such influences as the atmospheric qualities of 19th century Tonalism, the tranquility of Luminism, and the romantic spiritualism of the Hudson River School. But instead of looking back nostalgically, Dubina brings these qualities into our time, placing his striking attempts to conjure the Sublime on the inside of common everyday restaurant matchbook covers. Dubinas work has been collected internationally, and can be found in such collections as: The Nicholas Sparks Collection Ritz Carlton Hotel Dallas, TX Hillary R. Clinton Estee Lauder, New York City, NY The Federal Reserve MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX RR Donnelly, Chicago, IL. Citibank, New York City, NY Fuji Bank New York, NY Nynex Corp. New York, NY Monsanto Corp St. Louis, MO Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Duke University, Durham, NC Winston Enterprises Inc. New York, NY Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN Price Waterhouse, Boston, MS Illinois Solo Cup Corp. Champaign, IL. B.P. America, Cleveland, OH Hollister Corp. St. Louis, MO Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL McDonalds Corp. Chicago, IL Katsumi Kanada Village of Damine, Japan Michael Dubina's matchbook paintings are $650, and shipping is included in that price. Frame size 9x7. Paintings come wired and ready to hang. Contact the gallery to reserve. Example of a Michael Dubina matchbook painting framed. Secret Love, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Bohemian Rapsody (Homage to Freddie Mercury), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Another Knockout Punch (And No One Saw it Coming), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Moonlight Sonata (Homage to Beethoven), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Full Moon (Green Sky), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 At Sunset, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Curtain Call, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Harvest Season, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Moonrise, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Talking to the Moon, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Rain on the Scarecrow, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Sunset (Rose), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 Smoke and Mirrors, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7 The Hand, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7