DAVID ECKARD WINS NINETEENTH ANNUAL BONNIE BRONSON FELLOWSHIP AWARD

David Eckard is the recipient of the nineteenth annual Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award. Eckard is an artist, performer, and educator based in Portland. His practice as a visual artist includes sculpture, drawings, prints, and installations. The artist also creates elaborate props and costumes for live, filmed and animated performances that explore conditions of masculinity, endurance, authority, and absurdity. His performances have often been of a transient nature, roving events performed for unsuspecting audiences in public spaces such as playgrounds, parking lots, and street corners, not to mention a floating performance on the Willamette River viewable from the Hawthorne Bridge.

His work has been exhibited internationally and has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, Artnews, and Sculpture. Eckard is an associate professor and chair of the sculpture department at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. He recently returned from a two-year teaching fellowship in France.