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David Bierk
Painter
Male
Born
1944
Died
Aug 28, 2002
David Bierk, was an American-born Canadian painter. His work is exhibited at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City. According to Askart. com, Bierk was primarily active in California and Canada, and he was best known for producing landscape paintings… Read More
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David Bierk
d.2002
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CHILDHOOD
1944
Birth
Born in 1944.
THIRTIES
FORTIES
1991
47 Years Old
His most widely recognizable work is the 1991 album cover of Skid Row's Slave to the Grind.
FIFTIES
2001
57 Years Old
In a June 2001 Art in America review, critic Jonathan Goodman writes that "Bierk quotes from the past not so much to critique current art as to reinterpret a way of seeing that he associates with artists as disparate as Vermeer, Eakins, Ingres, Manet and Fantin-Latour", and that Bierk "accomplishes this particularly well when he starkly juxtaposes two or three of his eclectic art-historical references within a single work."
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Both Goodman's review and Bierk's 2002 New York Times obituary note that Bierk used framing to call attention, in a way that is pointedly "postmodern", to the historical disjunction between the evoked masterworks and the contemporary cultural environment: "He painted copies of works by artists like Vermeer or the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, for example, and framed them within broad steel panels, setting up a tension between humanism and old masterly craft on the one hand, and Modernist abstraction and industrial fabrication on the other."
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