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Michael Dubina

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. Frame size 9x7.

Paintings come wired and ready to hang. Contact the gallery to reserve.


Example of a Michael Dubina matchbook painting framed.




Homeward Doves, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Inner Harvest, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Cliffs of the Heart, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Walking Silently out of the Night, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




He Prayed For Rain, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Only From The Heart Can You Touch the Sky, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Sunflower Twilight for Vincent and Paul, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




The Beautiful Aesthetics of Red Yellow Blue, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




Through the Eye of a Needle, oil on matchbook cover, 10x8




At Sunset, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7




Sunset (Rose), oil on matchbook cover, 9x7




The Hand, oil on matchbook cover, 9x7





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