David Bierk — Postmodern Art

David Bierk — Postmodern Art “David Bierk (9 June 1944, Appleton, Minnesota — August 28, 2002), was an American-born Canadian painter.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.” Thus, the manner in which the painting is framed is often intrinsic to the work itself”
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