If academic distinctions alone were the criteria that make a quality painter, what a premium painter, Duke Asidere, with a first class degree in Fine Arts and an MFA would be. That cerebral distinction and an added renown as an evocative and experimental professional artist has him unquestionably in the cream of his generation (of artists).
Insightful and generally acknowledged as a master draughtsman, Duke’s picture are pleasurable and thought provoking, as he is positively rebellious in his art and perhaps one might say, tongue in cheek, his socio-political world views.