The late Michael Tyzack, whose dynamic work and engaging personality enlivened the Charleston art scene for decades, was a leading British-born abstract painter. He did much to push boundaries in the 1960s and early 1970s alongside names such as Bridget Riley, John Hoyland and Michael Kidner. Moving to the United States in 1971, he relinquished a measure of renown fashioned in England to forge a fresh and equally daring reputation in America.
Now he’s “going home.”
London’s Portland Gallery, recently selected to represent his estate, is holding the first solo exhibition of Tyzack’s works in Great Britain in 38 years. Having opened Wednesday, the show runs through June 12 with the aim of restoring Tyzack to his rightful place in the history of late-20th-century British art.