Biography
Painter and teacher, born in London. He studied at Slade School
of Art, 1956-61, where his work was heavily influenced by fellow
painter Dorothy Mead (a pupil of Bomberg). Between 1962-3 Dubsky
undertook part-time teaching, including Morley College. An Abbey
Major scholarship took him to the British School in Rome, 1963-4.
During the rest of the 1960s and early 1970s he taught at various
art schools and colleges, including camberwell, Wimbledon, Brighton
and Central (London), while a Harkness Fellowship was granted
him in 1969-71 for travel to America.
Dubsky
lived in New York 1973-4, and was artist-in-residence at British
School, Rome, 1982. He was atutor at the Royal College of Art,
1981-5, having a retrospective at South london Art Gallery in
1984, 15 years after his first one-man show at Grosvenor Gallery.
The Boundary Gallery held a two-part retrospective in 1990 and
1999.
Dubsky
was a powerful painter, whose work sometimes featured harrowing
subjects, such as the Holocaust, as well as abstracts in collage
and acrylic. He died of an Aids related illness in 1985.
His
work is held in the Tate, Arts Council and Government Art Collections.