Bev Pike

Bev Pike graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design and took post-graduate studies in fine art at the University of Alberta.

Pike's Grottesque series of paintings, which the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina circulated nationally in 2018.{{cite web |title=Bev Pike: Grottesque |publisher=Dunlop Gallery|url=http://museumlondon.ca/exhibitions/bev-pike-grottesque |access-date=13 October 2022}} In this series, Pike explores playful and sardonic dystopian refuges using monumental scale and fragile glazes.

In the publication for the 2018–2020 Canadian tour, the Dunlop Art Gallery's Assistant Curator Blair Fornwald analysed the gouaches on paper: "...lumpen bezoars of bedclothes, knitwear, yarn, and fabric coalesce into compositions resembling quasi-landscapes, details from domestic spaces, and the cavernous fleshy interiors of the body." Museum London's Curator/Director Cassandra Getty wrote in their publication, "Evocative titles like Cavernous Sun Parlour, Buried Dance Pavilion, and Subterranean Day Spa suggest that these spaces comprise the leisure sites of a new underground civilization." In her June 2018 Border Crossings review, Sandee Moore called this work "...a tour de force of demented whimsy..."

Curator Mary Reid,{{cite web |date=March 2013 |title=Bev Pike: Hymenal Views |url=https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/23730/1/pike_brochure.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210715083201/https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/23730/1/pike_brochure.pdf |archive-date=15 July 2021 |website=e-artexte |publisher=School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba}} described the earlier Hysteria Chronicles{{Cite book |last=Metcalfe |first=Robin |title=Bev Pike: The Hysteria Chronicles |publisher=St. Mary's University Gallery |year=2005 |isbn=1-895763-87-8 |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |pages=3}} paintings as, "mountainous bundles of clothing...creating a visual topography of overlapping social histories and constructions of gender."{{Cite web |title=University of Manitoba – School of Art |url=http://umanitoba.ca/schools/art/bev_pike.html |access-date=2016-03-05 |website=umanitoba.ca}}

Of the 1990 solo show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Curator Shirley Madill posited Pike's Boudoir Series{{Cite web |url=https://bevpike.com/works/boudoirs/ |title=Boudoirs|date=August 15, 2019}} as a "...balance on the threshold between reality and the inner space of dreams...to imbue everyday reality with poetry, magic and doubt."{{Cite book |title=New Histories: The Manitoba Studio Series |last=Madill |first=Shirley |publisher=The Winnipeg Art Gallery |year=1993 |oclc=604727192 |location=Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada|pages=21}}

Pike’s paintings have shown extensively at large public galleries and artist-run centres across Canada. Pike has received senior level grants from Canada Council, the [http://winnipegarts.ca/ Winnipeg Arts Council] and the Manitoba Arts Council, including several prestigious Major Arts Awards.{{Cite web |url=http://artscouncil.mb.ca/visual-arts/bev-pike-major-arts-grant-2012/ |title=Bev Pike – Major Arts Grant 2012 |website=Manitoba Arts Council |date=19 March 2012 |language=en-US |access-date=2016-03-05}} In addition, her paintings and artist-books are in public collections in Canada, the UK (Tate Britain,{{Cite web |title=Authors |url=https://library.tate.org.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=ty3XbvnQh0/LIBRARY/X/5/0 |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=library.tate.org.uk}}{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Library & Archive Reading Rooms at Tate Britain |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/library-archive-reading-rooms |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}} and the Victoria & Albert Museum) and the US (National Museum of Women in the Arts) among others).{{cite web |title=Authors |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/049655832 |website=search.worldcat.org |publisher=World Catalogue |access-date=22 January 2024}}

As a feminist activist and cultural advocate,{{Cite web |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=804&artist=Bev+Pike |title=CCCA Artist Profile for Bev Pike |website=ccca.concordia.ca |access-date=2016-03-05}} Bev Pike has lectured at universities and colleges across Canada. She has been on many boards and action committees,{{Cite web |date=2016-03-17 |title=Media Coverage of SORG |url=https://southosborneresidentsgroup.wordpress.com/media-coverage-of-sorg/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=South Osborne Residents' Group Inc. |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Association of National Non-Profit Artists Centres (ANNPAC) /Regroupement D'Artistes Des Centres Alternatifs (RACA) |url=https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX3034.htm |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.connexions.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://mawa.ca/about/history |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=mawa.ca |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.latitude53.org/about |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Latitude 53 |language=en-US}} as well as a mentor at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art{{Cite web |url=https://mawa.ca/pdf/Mentors_and_mentees.pdf |title=Foundation Mentorship Program Participant List |date=2015 |website=Mentoring Artists for Women's Art }} and is a founding member of the Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture Series.{{cite web |url=https://www.wpgfdn.org/WorkingTogether/StoryDetail.aspx?story=equality-through-art |title=Equality through art |date=November 18, 2016 |website=The Winnipeg Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410091534/http://www.wpgfdn.org:80/WorkingTogether/StoryDetail.aspx?story=equality-through-art |archive-date=10 April 2018}} In 2021, Herizons magazine published Pike's research into 1975's Woman as Viewer protest exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for International Women's Year.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-07 |title=Winter 2021 - |url=https://herizons.ca/product/winter-2021 |access-date=2023-03-06 |language=en-CA}} The Winnipeg Free Press followed up with a feature on Pike's talk on this for a March 2021 First Friday in the Exchange District.{{Cite web |last=Posted |first=Eva Wasney |title=Mar 2021: Painter Bev Pike revisits landmark Winnipeg art exhibition |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2021/03/31/kicking-at-the-cracks |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Winnipeg Free Press |date=31 March 2021 |language=en-US}}

Pike also has created video art and publishes artist's books as well as opinion pieces for CBC, MSN, the Winnipeg Free Press among others. Her papers are at the Archives of Manitoba{{Cite web |title=Archives of Manitoba {{!}} Keystone Archives Descriptive Database |url=http://pam.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/231272525/1/1?RECLIST&DATABASE=DESCRIPTION_WEB_INT |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=pam.minisisinc.com |language=en}} and Artexte.{{Cite web |title=Search results - e-artexte |url=https://e-artexte.ca/cgi/facet/simple2?q=bev+pike&_action_search=&_action_search=Search&basic_srchtype=ALL&_satisfyall=ALL |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=e-artexte.ca}} For her leadership of a 2001-2002 community action to protect the mandate of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) to develop professional skills in women, see both Pike's and MAWA's fonds at the Archives of Manitoba.

Autobiography of an Eccentric Line (2001){{Cite book|title=Autobiography of an Eccentric Line|last=Pike|first=Bev|publisher=Lives of Dogs|year=2001|isbn=0-9683019-2-4|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada}} shows a neurodivergent gene pool.

Swallowing Safety Pins (2007) {{Cite book|title=Swallowing Safety Pins|last=Pike|first=Bev|publisher=Lives of Dogs|year=2007|isbn=978-0-9683019-3-7|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada}} is an epistolary history of romance.

Agony Aunt's Cavalcade of Mysteries (2017) compares circus acts to relationships.

Her videotapes, distributed by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, include Agony Aunt Tarot (2015) about organising women and Suffragette Sight Gags (2004) satirizing collective action.{{Cite web|url=http://www.videopool.org/catalogue/artists/?id=276|title=vp . artist . Bev Pike|website=www.videopool.org|access-date=2016-03-05}}

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