Work of the Week features new addition to New Views at the AFA art house

DATE : March 24, 2026

^{Any Day Now, 2022, 
Collection: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, # 2025.011.001
Stainless steel, acrylic, commercial grade electronics
4.5” x 14” x 3.5.” Edition 1 of 2}

The AFA Art Collection recently acquired an artwork from internationally exhibited sculptor and award-winning artist, Dick Averns. The artwork, Any Day Now will be on display in the New Views exhibition at the AFA art house.

After Hours Artist Talk

Averns will be on hand at the AFA art house for an After Hours Artist Talk on Thursday, April 7 from 7-8 pm. The artist talk explores Averns’ focus on illuminating language as part of a decades-long interdisciplinary art practice.  The recurrence of text-based art, community engagement, and public art, will all be explored: mapping a continuum bookended by language as power, and light as life. 

The event is free to attend with no registration necessary.

About the Artist

Dick Averns maintains a vibrant community-engaged art practice, recalibrating the commodification of space. Probing how mental and physical spaces are valued, bought, sold, exchanged, or even fought over, his artworks are realized as sculpture, photography, public art, video, installation, and performance art.

Averns’ art appears in multiple collections including the Department of National Defence, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, City of Calgary, and numerous private collections. He is represented by the Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary.