David Dreisbach

Our next Artist You Need To Know has work in more than 300 public collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Seattle Art Museum, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, The Dayton Art Institute and the BnF –...

Mary Pratt

Our next Artist You Need To Know is someone who, in response to a dismissal of her works as ‘too commercial’, responded with “People will find out that in each one of the paintings there is something that ought to disturb them, something upsetting. That is why I...

Florence Vale

Our next Artist You Need To Know was an artist influenced equally by Surrealism, Expressionism and Cubism, melding these sometimes disparate movements into unique works. “I paint what I dream,” Florence Vale (1909 – 2003) stated, and one critic offered that “Her...

Daniel Erban

Our next Artist You Need To Know was born in Israel but lived and worked in Montreal. Daniel Erban’s work is almost immediately recognizable. Art Historian James Campbell described Erban as ‘a self-taught artist who…lost many family members in the Holocaust and...

Richard Gorman

Our next Artist You Need To Know is a good example of the motivation behind this series, from AIH Studios: Richard Gorman (1935 – 2010) was a painter, print maker and sculptor whose work is significant but doesn’t necessarily get the contemporary attention he...