Visual artist Bruce Head dies
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The Winnipeg arts community has lost one of its boldest and brightest.
The prominent visual artist Bruce Head died Wednesday afternoon in St. Boniface Hospital from the effects of congestive heart failure. He was 78.
“He was always filled with prospects and plans,” said his wife of 33 years, the photographer and travel writer Judy Waytiuk.
“With Bruce it was always about the next piece.”
Head, known for his colourful landscape-based contemporary abstracts, enjoyed a long, versatile and prolific career. He was honoured with a large retrospective, Head Space: Five Decades of Bruce Head, in November 2008 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
“He was vital right to the end,” said art teacher and curator Amy Karlinsky, who curated the WAG show.
“He was very significant to the city.”
Among his numerous public commissions were the big orange and yellow canvases in the lobby of the Woodsworth Building on Broadway and the concrete wall sculpture in the underground concourse at Portage and Main.
“Bruce loved making art,” Karlinsky said. “He wasn’t in it to get big honours. He just kept making beautiful stuff.”