About Me
My work is an expression of events and images encountered in my life, reflecting the multicultural, multiracial society of the old and new world.
It is my practice to work loosely on a floor, cutting and re-arranging materials on my canvas. Using wood, dust, paper, pulp and acrylic gel, I create a textured effect that moves between figuration and abstraction.
As my inspiration, I draw upon a spectrum of cultural influences from my native Guyana, the Caribbean, South and North America.
Armed with these images, myths, and folkloric figures, I then evoke a magical landscape leading the viewer into a world wherein we meet the ancestors. Because of the premise on which my work is being made, the appearances of the images on a textured surface often forces the viewer to complete the images in their own mind.
“I am lucky to have been blessed with the talent of an artist. If I were given another avocation I am sure that I would have been unfaithful to God, the world and myself.”
Dudley professes that he gets his courage, determination and strength to be victorious in life through his relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Contact Info:
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Dudley Charles
PARTIAL LISTING OF EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
DUDLEY CHARLES
2006 Bishop Joseph Johnson. Black Cultural Center
Vanderbilt University , Nashville, TN, U S A.
2005Art Tribute Studio *
Edmonson, MD – USA
2005Art the Fabric of Our Lives
Guyana’s Week at O.A.S Building
Washington, DC. USA
2005Assimilated Experiences 11
Xando’s Café
Baltimore, MD
2004Assimilated Experience – A contemporary Art Exhibition
Xando’s Café & Artist
2004Masquerade with Mad Bull *
The Court Street School
Freehold, NJ – USA
2004International Nude Art Expo
Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
2004Masquerade with Mad Bull
C J Café
Brooklyn, NY – USA
2004Black Nude Expo
October Gallery
Philadelphia, PA – USA
2004Inner Moods Outer Images *
STUDIO 15
Brentwood, MD – USA
2004LOOKING *
Shirley’s Interior Designs
Landover, MD – USA
2003Voluntary Exile
Contemporary Work by Artist from the Caribbean Region
WESTNORTH Studio
Baltimore, MD – USA
2003Caribbean Realities II
Museum of the Americas
South Carolina, USA
1998Guyana Week *
Organization of America State Building
Washington DC, USA
1998Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Traveling Exhibitions
Latin American Art Museum
Long Beach, CA USA
1998Venter for the Arts,
Vero Beach, Florida USA
1998“Art for Life”
Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC USA
1997Center for African American History and Culture
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC USA
1997Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury, Vermont. USA
1997The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts
Hartford, Connecticut USA
1996African American Museum
Dallas, Texas, USA
1996New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
199639th Independence Anniversary Celebrations
Embassy of Guyana, Washington, DC
1996Under One Sun
Skylight Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA
1995Guyana Week – OAS Building
Washington, DC USA
1995Caribbean Vision: Exhibition Open
Center for the Fine Arts
Miami, Florida, USA
1994Inter-American Development Bank
Washington, DC USA
1994Skoto Gallery
African Contemporary Arts
New York
1992The Eleventh Caribbean Arts and Humanities Festival
Restoration Center
Brooklyn, NY USA
1992Caribbean Arts – Keni Kallon’s Resident
Stanford, C.T. USA
1991Latin Art Gallery
Inter-American Development Bank
Nagoya, Japan
1991ALJIRA Center for Contemporary Arts
(Kwanza Celebration)
New Jersey, USA
1991Art of Guyana
25th Year Anniversary Celebration of
Guyana Independence
Martin Luther King’s Library
Washington, DC USA
1990Watermark/Cargo Gallery
Kingston, New York USA
1989Painter & Sculpture Exhibition
Eudora Welty Library
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
1989Painter & Sculpture
I.D.B. Bank
Washington, DC USA
1988Abstract Attitudes
Contemporary Guyanese Artists in America
Gallery 843
Brooklyn, N.Y. USA
1988Guyana Museum *
Georgetown, Guyana
1987Tour of Guyana National Collection
Venezuela, South America
1987Roots and Culture Art Gallery
Georgetown, Guyana
1987MYTHS and LIFE
Venezuelan Institute
Georgetown, Guyana
1986“FOCUS” 86’ Caribbean Art Now
Commonwealth Institute
London, England
1986Tribute to Martin Luther King
ALJIRA Center for Contemporary Art
New Jersey, USA
1986National Exhibition of Visual Arts
Georgetown, Guyana
1981Carifesta “81”
Barbados, W.I.
1980Umana Yana *
Georgetown, Guyana
1978P.S.U. Hall Guyana *
National Exhibition of Visual Arts
Georgetown, Guyana
1977FESTAC ‘77’
2ND World Black and African Arts Festival
Lagos, Nigeria
1976Carifesta ‘76’
Kingston, Jamaica
1975National Exhibition of Visual Arts
Georgetown, Guyana
1973X11 Bienal de Sao Paulo
Brazil
1972Carifesta ‘72’
Georgetown, Guyana
1970National Exhibition
Celebration of the Republic of Guyana
Guyana Museum
Georgetown, Guyana
1968British Council Library
Georgetown, Guyana
1968JFK Library
Georgetown, Guyana
AWARDS
SELECTED LISTING
2005The Guyana Cultural Association NY Inc. in recognition for outstanding contribution to Guyana’s Culture & Heritage.
1995Certificate of Achievement 1995 Art Competition from Winsor and Newton, N.J, U.S.A.
1988National Award, Visual Arts – Guyana
1987Visual Arts, Painting – Guyana
1986Visual Arts, Painting – Guyana
1977Arts Council Award – Painting - Guyana
Artist’s Biography: Exhibitions Back to Gallery
