Our next Artist You Need To Know is artist, activist and art educator Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013). She is often described as a modernist sculptor, but her works are more nuanced than that. Her works have an ephemeral quality (perhaps an element from how the...
Our next person of note in our continuing Artist You Need To Know series is Alan Jarvis (1915 – 1972). Similar to when we featured Norman McLaren, Jarvis is important for his legacy of fostering spaces and communities that were – and still are –...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jo Manning (1923-2022). Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Manning was one of Canada’s foremost printmakers, specifically in terms of her etchings over a career that spanned several decades and garnered her several...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Guido Molinari (1933 – 2004). Molinari was a Canadian artist who was known internationally for his serial abstract paintings that were often massive and explored hard edged abstraction. “Considered one of the most...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Genieve Figgis. Figgis (who was born in 1972) is an Irish artist who graduated in 2006 from the Gorey School of Art in Wexford (BFA) and earned a BA (hons) and an MFA (2012) from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin,...
