Dirk de Brycker

Dirk De Bruycker was born in Belgium. He lived and worked in Santa Fe but spent quite a bit of time in Nicaragua. He studied at the City Academy of Fine Arts, Niklaas, Belgium (1964-73), St. Lucas Institute of Fine Arts, Ghent (M.A., 1977), Tamarind Institute (1979-80), University of New Mexico (graduate printmaking, 1980-81).

The painterly logic is at the heart of De Bruycker's work and it describes not only his process of instinctive physicality and precision but the life of the artist as well - "solitary creativity, living like a cat, capitalizing on the moments of focus." The vicissitudes of chance are welcome. The interaction between instinct and expertise becomes organic to the point where the consciousness of the act of decision making falls away and the painterly logic takes over. Throughout the years I have searched for a tactile but fragile beauty, a kind of dangerous beauty, a fleeting one."

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