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David Charles Bierk RCA (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre.
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David Bierk (1944-2002) was a painter and photographer who re-presented the masters in a new context. He created still life, landscape and painted photograph works that explored the dialogue of oil and steel, the light and the land, and the sublime and the tragic.
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Sep 7, 2002 · David Bierk, a Canadian painter, died on Aug. 28 in Peterborough, Ontario. He was 58. Mr. Bierk, who was suffering from leukemia, died of pneumonia, said Nancy Hoffman, his New York...
Using images of voluptuous table settings, flowers, landscapes, fragments of text and replications of famous artworks, he examined concepts of history, memory, art history, evolution and eternity. Bierk was one of the first artists to adopt appropriation as a legitimate means to art-making.
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David Bierk was born in Appleton, Minnesota, in 1944, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California, and subsequently taught art in the Bahamas for several years.