“Out of the Studio”: New Works by Anthony Dyke and Susan Morrison-Dyke at 1515 Lincoln Gallery

The show features new works created in Boston at their Fenway and South End studios. The artists relocated to Boston from Oklahoma City in 2020. Their shared experience living among New England’s splendid natural beauty and the proximity to New York has resonated in their colorful paintings, sympatico with one another yet distinctively different. Color, form, and physicality leads the way in Anthony Dyke’s new body of works. Through process-based abstraction, land and cityscapes are explored to unearth relationships between intersecting planes and pictorial space. Anthony begins with small maquette paintings, allowing controlled gestures to guide his marks into concrete forms. From these preparatory sketches, he begins building the surfaces of his larger works, transforming traditional painterly mediums into something more tactile by mixing oil paint with a formula of beeswax and linseed oil. The result is an alchemy of geometry, texture, and color where liminal and physical space coexist. Susan Morrison-Dyke’s excellent show of paintings are buoyant in their color and form. They are at once joyous and dark. Using the language of geometric abstraction and allowing the materiality of paint to play a central role in the work’s surface, titles like Coney Island Park and Queen’s Mate hint at something more subversive. At close inspection, the use of collage is visible, creating a pentimenti of information that invites the viewer to consider its meaning. The mood of Susan Morrison-Dyke’s paintings is brilliantly orchestrated via the use of color theory, art history, and an intuition about rewarding the eye. (Review by Andrew Fish for ART SPIEL July 2024). The gallery is honored to present Out of the Studio, featuring a dynamic duo whose work bursts with color, form, and texture. This vibrant exhibition invites visitors to look closely and uncover the stories embedded in each richly layered piece. The show opens with a free public reception on Thursday, June 12, 2025, from 6–8 pm, and will remain on view until Saturday, July 19, 2025. Both artists will be in attendance at the opening reception.

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