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ILLUMINATING LANGUAGE: Dick Averns
October 5, 2023 – December 20, 2023
Illuminating Language by internationally exhibited and award-winning artist, Dick Averns, is a survey exhibition, spanning thirty years of text-based art addressing a range of topics including social justice, conflict, natural resources and mental wellness. Averns’ art has been acquired for multiple collections, including by the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Department of National Defense, Province of Alberta, City of Calgary, and multiple private collections. The critical value of his work was recognized in 2020 when Dick received the City of Calgary Mayor’s Cultural Leaders Legacy Award for Healing Through the Arts, following a multi-year project addressing community mental wellness.
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- Ambivalence Blvd… Trump Road Show, 2016. Digital print from DSLR. Dimensions vary. Performance art outside “Trump Make America Great Again!” rally for NY Presidential Primary Election. Syracuse, NY. April 16, 2016. Camera: Lewis Liski.
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- Liberty Ave, 2009. Archival Digital Print with laminate on 1/8” Aircraft Grade Aluminum with cleats, 24 x 36 inches
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- Recognition… Validation… Reassurance…, (detail), 2017. Neon sculpture with custom flasher. 33 x 60 x 8 inches
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- Recognition… Validation… Reassurance…, 2018, Giles: Wish I Was… Billboard. Social practice public art project, community participant collage. Documentation photograph in collection of Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Digital print from DSLR on Epson Archival Paper Edition 1/5. 47 x 68 inches.
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- Illuminating Language, 2022, installation view – Herringer Kiss Gallery. Neon, chromed steel, wood, closed cell liner, transformers; Wall module 8 x 60 x 8 inches, floor module 18 x 72 x 12 inches.
