Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit
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Audain Art Museum 4350 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British Columbia V0N 1B4
Beau Dick, "Dzunukwa mask (detail)," 2007
red cedar, pigment, horsehair, 133.0 x 65.0 x 40.0 cm Audain Art Museum Collection Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, 2015.017
Co-Curated by Darrin Martens, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chief Curator, Audain Art Museum and Linnea Dick
The retrospective project, Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit, is a critically important art historical project for the Audain Art Museum to undertake and honours the legacy of this remarkable artist. The Museum has made its mission to focus on collecting and exhibiting exceptional art created by gifted visual artists from what is now labelled British Columbia. As such, Beau Dick and his work stand out as exemplary. The retrospective will provide insight into the complexities of traditional and contemporary Indigenous approaches to the creation of art on the West Coast. Beau Dick was an artist who was deeply rooted in the traditions of his Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation. He also challenges those traditions in order to create a distinctive artistic and cultural voice for himself within and outside of his Nation.
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