Biography
by "O" | by Jeanne Boyer, MA | by Daniel Foster, PhD | by Janell Glessner, MA | by Jonathan Green, PhD | Peter Erickson, MA
By Jeanne Boyer, MA, editor, Inland Empire Magazine, (Not an online publication) Sep. 2011 issue.
“CREATIVE FORCE. John Dingler was born in Gorizia, Italy and incorporates some of the elegant architecture of that country with a pop sensibility in his 3-D creations, now on view at the Riverside Community Arts Association in downtown Riverside. Dingler says that the combination of classical influence and irreverence became evident when he and his brother tossed stones at statues of Venus and Apollo at the Castello di Miramare in Trieste, Italy.
Dingler moved to Washington, D.C., then Maryland as a child, became a U. S. citizen, and later joined the U.S. Navy. He studied at UC Berkeley, has art degrees from UC Irvine and the University of Maryland, and exhibits his work internationally. He makes moviettes for you tube as well as paintings. Politics and social issues infuse much of his work, including his Neo-Cons series, and Dinger is working on politically themed pieces for an upcoming exhibit. While he sees the entertainment value in politics, he’s passionate about the impact of politicians and Wall Street tycoons on people’s lives. “I take life seriously,” Dingler says.
His latest project is “Diaphanous Geithner,” a portrait of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose silhouettes are filled with sheer fabric with metallic dots. The Diaphanous Geithner rests on a colonnade of Doric columns that mimics the Treasury building facade, half submerged in an aquarium. Miniature Monopoly-style houses float underwater. A motorized hand between the Geithner profiles represents Dingler’s effort to influence Geithner’s thoughts (he describes it in more colorful fashion).
His work often combines photos, drawings, classical figures, and news headlines. It’s important to look closely at the images making up the background on an eight-foot tall hand called ”Sex is to Bowling as Violence is to Parachuting,” or a sculpture called “The Consumer.” While his shaped canvases were inspired by the minimalist work of Frank Stella, Dingler’s examples include figures inside the tool or gun-shaped outlines.
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“CREATIVE FORCE. John Dingler was born in Gorizia, Italy and incorporates some of the elegant architecture of that country with a pop sensibility in his 3-D creations, now on view at the Riverside Community Arts Association in downtown Riverside. Dingler says that the combination of classical influence and irreverence became evident when he and his brother tossed stones at statues of Venus and Apollo at the Castello di Miramare in Trieste, Italy.
Dingler moved to Washington, D.C., then Maryland as a child, became a U. S. citizen, and later joined the U.S. Navy. He studied at UC Berkeley, has art degrees from UC Irvine and the University of Maryland, and exhibits his work internationally. He makes moviettes for you tube as well as paintings. Politics and social issues infuse much of his work, including his Neo-Cons series, and Dinger is working on politically themed pieces for an upcoming exhibit. While he sees the entertainment value in politics, he’s passionate about the impact of politicians and Wall Street tycoons on people’s lives. “I take life seriously,” Dingler says.
His latest project is “Diaphanous Geithner,” a portrait of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose silhouettes are filled with sheer fabric with metallic dots. The Diaphanous Geithner rests on a colonnade of Doric columns that mimics the Treasury building facade, half submerged in an aquarium. Miniature Monopoly-style houses float underwater. A motorized hand between the Geithner profiles represents Dingler’s effort to influence Geithner’s thoughts (he describes it in more colorful fashion).
His work often combines photos, drawings, classical figures, and news headlines. It’s important to look closely at the images making up the background on an eight-foot tall hand called ”Sex is to Bowling as Violence is to Parachuting,” or a sculpture called “The Consumer.” While his shaped canvases were inspired by the minimalist work of Frank Stella, Dingler’s examples include figures inside the tool or gun-shaped outlines.
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