Our next Artist You Need To Know is Tien Chang 章天柱. Chang, originally from Taiwan, now works and resides in Toronto. He is the vice-chairman of the Chinese Association and a member of the Ontario Chinese Artists Association. Tien Chang paints horses almost...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fiona Smyth. For almost four decades, Smyth has made work in the intersecting spheres of art, comics and murals. Educated at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD U) from which she graduated in 1986, Smyth’s “comics have...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is more historical, but in this ongoing series we like to range into many different eras and arenas. Rodolphe Töpffer (1799 – 1846) was a Swiss author, teacher, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist: Töpffer illustrated books such as...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Sue Coe. Her works are unique, viscerally memorable, and she has been described as ‘an activist whose art is a blend of visual journalism, social protest, and propaganda.’ (from here) In many ways, Coe is a successor to...
Our latest Artist You Need To Know is David Hlynsky. Hlynsky was born in the United States, but emigrated to Canada in 1971. His grandparents had left Poland and the Ukraine around 1912, for North America. He attended Ohio State University from 1965 to 1970, earning a...
