Dick Averns
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Dick Averns (Born 1964 in London), is an artist, who produces installations, sculptures, photography, text and performances.
Averns' interdisciplinary art practice addresses the commodification of space. Gallery exhibits, public art projects and performative interventions explore issues of language, media convergence and identity. His interdisciplinary approach places audience as a central component to works that engage with the commodification of space. As a teacher at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Averns teaches advanced studio and Liberal Studies subjects, including sculpture, performance and installation, drawing and First Year Studies.
His early works featured the clandestine installation of advertisements on tube trains and subtle amendments to billboards. Projects in the public domain have continued through series of conceptual text based installations and performative interventions, including the performative alter ego Armchair Terrorist. Sculpture and photography feature prominently in gallery installations. Averns writings include Art in the Face of The Project for The New American Century and Cataloging Canada’s Schools of Art and Design for Artichoke magazine. Averns' recent installation Preoccupation revolves around the conceptual location of Ambivalence Blvd.
