Dirk De Bruycker 1955-2015. Born in Gent, Belgium, where he received his formal training in drawing, printmaking and photography, first at the City academy of Fine arts in Sint-Niklaas and later at the St.- Lucas Institute in Gent. In 1979 he was accepted to study at Tamarind Institute’s printing training program in Albuquerque, NM, which led him to the US. After studying two years in New Mexico De Bruycker returned to Belgium to teach and open his own collaborative lithography studio. He returned to the US in 1986, where he started painting and has resided and worked in the American Southwest since. Between 2002 and 2008 Dirk De Bruycker also maintained a studio in Granada Nicaragua, traveling back and forth between Granada and Santa Fe, NM.
He is represented by Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe ,FP Gallery, Culver City, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Scott White, La Jolla, William Shearburn, St. Louis, Lanoue Fine Art, Boston Rosenbaum Gallery, Boca Raton, Gebert Contemporaty, Scotsdale, and Melissa Morgan, Palm Desert.
