Aaron Peck

Writer Aaron Peck reading in Anacortes, WA in July 2011.

Aaron Peck is a Vancouver-based writer. He is the author of the novel The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis published by Pedlar Press in 2008.[1][2][3] His second book, Letters to the Pacific was published by Publication Studio in Portland, Oregon in 2010.[4] Letters is a collection of 11 letters sent to "the Pacific" in 2007 while Peck attended City University of New York. The edition was a collaboration with Düsseldorf-based artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried who annotated and designed the book. Letters was read in its entirety with an accompanying film in a 2011 four-city German tour.[5]

Peck's art criticism and journalism have appeared in Art Agenda, Artforum, Art Papers, and La Fábrica’s Matador, Arcade, Canadian Art, Fillip,[6][7] Open Letter, Matador and the CBC Radio 3 Magazine. He has also written for a number of exhibition catalogs including Catriona Jeffries Gallery, the Presentation House Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, and a number of artist run centres. He currently teaches at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, where he won the Ian Wallace Excellence in Teaching award in 2011.[8]

In 2012 Aaron was selected to take part in the writers residency at documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.[9][10]

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis: Amazon.ca: Aaron Peck, Beth Follet: Books".
  2. ↑ "Review of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis by Aaron Peck". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Excerpt from The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis". Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "Letters to the Pacific at Publication Studio".
  5. ↑ "Aaron Peck read in Frankfurt, Germany, presenting the new deluxe edition of Letters to the Pacific".
  6. ↑ "Fillip / Farm Arugula with Figs: Bay Area Bazaar, The RED and the GREEN, and Ripe Family Supper (Aaron Peck)". Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Fillip / If You Build It, They Will Come (Aaron Peck)". Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Aaron Peck - Emily Carr University". Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "dOCUMENTA 13 - CHORALITY, ON RETREAT: A WRITERS' RESIDENCY AARON PECK". Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "Lesung bei Venus & Apoll". Rheinische Post. Retrieved 1 August 2012.