Ribitch (Rib-Itch): A scratch on the rib, or something that bothers you. The name is a play on words and a bit of Humor Noir. Ribitch for most of his life, has had an affinity for surrealism. For the past thirty years has been a active member of the International Surrealist Movement. Since his introduction to Philip Lamantia and the Bay Area Surrealist Group in 1975 he has been involved in several major Surrealist exhibitions. Soon after this momentous meeting Ribitch traveled to Chicago to meet with the Arsenal Group and attended The World Surrealist Exhibition: Marvelous Freedom, The Vigilance of Desire. Over 33 Nations were represented showing the solidarity of all the individual groups’ world wide. In 1978 Ribitch returned to Chicago and helped organize another International surrealist exhibit The 100 Anniversary of Hysteria.

Ribitch continues to collaborate and commune with surrealist comrades around the world. He has exhibited in several group shows as well as his own one man shows. He has published two chap books of Poetry (Nefftania and Third Morning), co-edited a literary journal with fellow surrealist Sharon Olson (Somnambulist). He has had work published in Surrealism and It’s Popular Accomplices, Free Spirits published by City Lights, Cultural Correspondance and most recently the first bi-lingual edition of Analogon, the journal of the Surrealist Movement in Prague.

Ribitch’s views of surrealism can be summed up in his own words, “It is a lightning field of the possible, where the horizon is set aflame by human potential. It is here amongst the corellas of this possibility that the marvelous displays its fine wings of gossamer silk and smoke. It is the play between the invisible and the visible dancing under a moon, recognizing its dreams in crystalline reflection. It is the erotic sensation of a breath, like the shaman’s drum, the heart beat of the marvelous calling to the unseen chimeras of the unconscious to reveal their stories at the edge of the eye.”