Critical Writing Index

David Askevold, 1940-2008

by Ian Murray

C Magazine, Spring 2008, no. 97, p. 5

American artist David Askevold died on January 23, 2008 in Halifax Nova Scotia. Askevold was a post-minimalist artist pioneering in the areas of early conceptualism, narrative and digital art. Working in a variety of media and with a myriad of subject matter, Askevold had a varied practice that was always stylistically recognizable as his own. Askevold was an internationally renowned artist who worked in many places including California, Milwaukee, Toronto, and Halifax.

ITEM 2008.013 – available for viewing in the Research Centre