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Doug Biden : Visceral Allegories / Darrin J. Martens
Title
Doug Biden : Visceral Allegories / Darrin J. Martens
Author
Martens, Darrin
Burnaby Art Gallery
Date
2007
Type
Exhibit Catalogue
Language
English
Dimensions
95 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9780978389215
Location
Canadian Catalogues, Burnaby Art Gallery
Subject
Biden, Doug, 1956- --Exhibitions
Prints, Canadian--Exhibitions
Human figure in art--Exhibitions
Mass media and art--Exhibitions
Burnaby Art Gallery--Exhibitions
Biden, Doug
Description
Anatomical images of the human body recur in this retrospective of Doug Biden's prints and drawings. Because the artist died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 50, it's easy to read a preoccupation with illness, medicine, and mortality into his art. Yet most of the work here predates Biden's 2005 diagnosis. It's as if his imagery were somehow prescient, as if his interest in social and biological systems and body politics anticipated his physical struggle and early end. An accomplished and respected printmaker, Biden exhibited his art nationally and internationally.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., Sept. 11-Oct. 21, 2007.
Gallery
Burnaby Art Gallery
Curator
Martens, Darrin
Collection
Library