David
Works
Eulogy to Light & Life to Vermeer
31’’ x 51’’
A Eulogy to Mankind, Still Life Fragment #1
24’’ x 26’’
Cazadero Summer Storm
20’’ x 24’’
Eulogy for a Planet, Locked in Migration, Light of Day
31 1/2’’ x 47’’
Eulogy for a Planet, Solitary River, to Van Eyck
31’’ x 48’’
Figure Fragment in Stone, to Vermeer
31’’ x 30’’
In the Absence of Paradise, to Earth & Mankind
30’’ x 68’’
Kawartha Dawn, Orange Sky
10’’ x 16’’
Landscape at Sunset, after William Keith
20’’ x 27’’
November Rain, Ancient Pond
20’’ x 20’’
Olana Study 12
19’’ x 12’’
Solitary Tree, Locked in Migration, to Van Gogh
45’’ x 37’’
Still Life Fragment #3, Locked in Migration
31 3/4’’ x 25 1/2’’
Still Life, Locked in Migration, After H.D. Murphy
43’’ x 42’’
The Line to Home (Art and Life), to Fantin-Latour
32 1/4’’ x 60 1/2’’
Biography
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. He returned to California to study at Humboldt State University in Arcata, where he received an M.F.A. in painting and photography.
Bierk immigrated to Canada in 1972 and took up a teaching position in Peterborough, Ontario. In 1974, he founded Artspace, an artist-run centre, that he directed until 1987. It was then that he decided to devote himself to the full-time pursuit of his career as an artist. A passionate painter and a prolific exhibitor, Bierk successfully established an international reputation for his work.
He had eight children and lived and painted in Peterborough until his death from leukemia in August 2002. In 1998, he was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and in 2002 was posthumously awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.