CHARLIE DUTTON GALLERY

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PRESS RELEASE

‘SENSE MANIAC'
HOWARD DYKE
24th June - 14th July 2010
Private View Wednesday 23rd June 6.00 – 8.30pm
Press Reception 4pm
Artist Talk Friday 25th June 6pm

For his show at Charlie Dutton Gallery, Howard Dyke will install twenty new paintings from the last two years. The dimensions of the Tudor building in Holborn by chance are the same as Howard’s studio space. So the work he will show has literally been made for the space without him knowing it. A bombastic journey through disparate and some times desperate imagery. ‘Sense Maniac’ is an expressionist movement all of its own.

Dyke's gestural, painterly brushwork is expressive, emotive, evocative, but his gestures tend towards the figure and it’s clothing - in the case of the veil, robe or burka. As his brush strokes form folds, lines drips of colour, they relate back to drapery, dress and costume. The drapery is suggestive, allowing for multiple readings or projections, a conflation of apparel of paint, covering and protecting but also displaying the fabric, or providing a reason or support for bright colours and bold flowing patterns.

Dyke destroys gesture and collapses the figure/ground dialectic. He takes apart his open expressionist gesture in order to examine it from a new view-point, rearranging, turning it around to see how it works, or to continue it. The folds become cut, the seams proliferate; the working method is still quick, loose and impulsive, but scissors have, for now, replaced the paintbrush; the scissors of a Tailor, a Collagist, a Montagist, creating new forms, mantles and relationships; assembling splinters into whole things again, finding spontaneous conjunctions from the pieces.Biographical Details:

Howard Dyke Born: 11/04/71 Lives and works in London he completed his (MA Fine Art) Goldsmiths College, (BA Fine Art) Central St martins.
Various group shows in 2009/10 include Tag 3-45 London Painting - Brown gallery. Plus 100 - 122 Webber st. With Or Without God – L13 Aquarium, Hilo – Keith Talent Gallery, Drawings with Dolphins – Crimestown.

Dyke was awarded 2008 Jessica Wilkes award – Acme Studio bursary 1 year in 2008. International collectors have collected his work.

Sentence for ExhibitionGuides Etc:
‘SENSE MANIAC’
New expressive, emotive and gestural paintings by Howard Dyke

Editors Notes:
Charlie Dutton and Howard Dyke are available for interviews by making an appointment on 07930689839. Full collections of graphics are also available on request. The gallery is open to the public Wednesday – Friday 10 – 6 Saturday 10 –1 or by appointment.