Bev Pike: Grottesque
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Estevan Art Gallery & Museum 118 4 Street, Estevan, Saskatchewan S4A 0T4
Bev Pike, "Grottesque," 2021
Bev Pike: Grottesque
Curated by Blair Fornwald
Organized and circulated by Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library.
Winnipeg-based artist Bev Pike is known for her monumentally-scaled, performative landform paintings. Painted with gouache on paper, her works stretch from floor to ceiling, and are no less than eighteen feet in length, enveloping the viewer. Grottesque features her most recent series, which depict strange underground grottos and caves, lush with baroque detailing. Evocative titles like Cavernous Sun Parlour, Buried Dancing Pavilion, and Subterranean Day Spa suggest that these spaces comprise the leisure sites of a new underground civilization.
Since graduating from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Bev Pike has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, and has also become an accomplished writer. She has received senior arts grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. Her work is in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank; as well as in artist’s book collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, and special collections in England and North America.
Bev Pike: Grottesque is curated by Blair Fornwald, and organized and circulated by the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lotteries