Beau Dick: 15x15: Independent 2010-2024: Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013

Following his posthumous first New York solo exhibition with White Columns, Beau Dick (1955-2017) reached collecting audiences at Independent New York in 2020 with the support of Fazakas Gallery in Vancouver. Chief Beau Dick, aka Walas Gwa’yam, was a Kwakwaka’wakw (Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation) artist and activist. (Dick’s name in the Kwak’wala language means: “Big whale”.) He was born in the community of Alert Bay, B.C., and lived in Kingcome Inlet and Vancouver. He began carving at an early age, studying under his father Benjamin Dick, his grandfather James Dick, and with renowned artists Henry Hunt and Doug Cranmer.

Presented by Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver