art house After Hours
Join us on Thursday, April 7 from 7-8 pm as internationally exhibited sculptor and award-winning artist, Dick Averns, introduces his artwork, Any Day Now.
This artist talk explores Averns’ focus on illuminating language as part of a decades-long interdisciplinary art practice.
The recurrence of text-based art, community engagement, and public art, will all be explored: mapping a continuum bookended by language as power, and light as life.
The event is free to attend with no registration required.
About the artist
Dick Averns maintains a vibrant community-engaged art practice, recalibrating the commodification of space. Probing how mental and physical spaces are valued, bought, sold, exchanged, or even fought over, his artworks are realized as sculpture, photography, public art, video, installation, and performance art.
Averns’ art appears in multiple collections including the Department of National Defence, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, City of Calgary, and numerous private collections. He is represented by the Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary.
See more of Dick Averns' work in the AFA Virtual Emuseum.