About Dick van Dijk
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Education
2022 - 2023
Drawing Inventions Academy
2011 - 2015
Wackers Academy (Fine Arts), Amsterdam
Awards
2023
Teravarna Talent Prize
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Previous events
Event: De Visuele Cirkel
Dates: 11 Sep 2024 - 22 Sep 2024
Artist collective
Event: IJ Kunst Collectief
Dates: 30 Aug 2024 - 1 Sep 2024
Bi-annual pop up gallery
Event: Zomerprogramma
Dates: 3 Jun 2024 - 11 Jun 2024
Summer exhibition
Event: Doortekend
Dates: 3 Nov 2023 - 6 Nov 2023
Group exhibition
Event: IJ Kunst collectief
Dates: 21 Aug 2023 - 23 Aug 2023
Bi-annual pop up exhibition of artists & designers.
Event: First Art Fair
Dates: 5 Mar 2021 - 8 Mar 2021
Large art fair
Event: #thejoyofpainting
Dates: 30 Aug 2019 - 1 Sep 2019
Group exhibition of 7 Dutch figurative painters
Event: Poses en portretten
Dates: 13 Jan 2019 - 28 Jan 2019
Duo exhibition of oil paintings with Saskia Lensink.
Event: Les Artistes hollandais s'experiment en Charolles
Dates: 1 May 2018 - 8 May 2018
Group exhibition and residency.
Event: Sieraden en Schilderijen
Dates: 16 Apr 2017 - 19 Apr 2017
Goup exhibition with Dolores de Jong, Ritsa Zervou and Yiannis Vella of new work.
Event: Alumni tentoonstelling Wackers Akademie, Amsterdam
Dates: 1 Mar 2017 - 14 Mar 2017
Group exhibition of alumni of the Wackers Akademy on the theme of dance.
Event: Paintings Ritsa Zervou - Dick van Dijk
Dates: 13 May 2016 - 16 May 2016
Exhibition of recent works by Dick van Dijk and Ritsa Zervou. Works made the last six months.
Event: Wackers Alumni
Dates: 27 Feb 2016 - 20 Mar 2016
Alumni present recent works, made after their graduation.
Event: Graduation show
Dates: 5 Jun 2015 - 7 Jun 2015
Group show of class of 2015
Event: Paintings, drawings and graphic work, Christine van den Horn - Dick van Dijk
Dates: 20 Dec 2014 - 21 Dec 2014
Dutch artist Christine van den Horn and Dick van Dijk present recent paintings, drawings and graphic work.
Biography
Dick van Dijk is an Amsterdam based artist who draws and paints. His work is inspired by the male figure. His work stands at the crossroads of control and intuition. Dick’s process is one he likens to collage, assembling, adjusting, de-constructing and reconstructing, collections of layers, full of incident and surprise, reworking scenes from everyday life in his mind’s eye. Through painterly discoveries during the working process, new elements and dynamics emerge. Playing with colours that mix and sift through also introduces new variables. In doing so, he seeks a duality between realistic forms and less elaborate parts to create a vivid image. In some works, (parts of) figures are concealed, while in others bodies appear, leaving visual cues to what may or may not be there.
The result is male forms who tell layered narratives of freedom and intimacy, close to the skin and seen through the lens of memory and expectation.
