Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joseph Cornell (1903 – 1972). Cornell was an American visual artist and filmmaker : his pioneering work in assemblage set a standard for many artists who followed him. Primarily self taught – and living in isolation for most...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022). Bontecou was a groundbreaking American artist primarily situated in the art community of New York City. Her works are immediately recognizable : her abstract sculptures (her most prolific period was in...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Deborah Turbeville (1932 – 2013). Deborah Lou Turbeville was an American fashion photographer : before taking on photography full time in the 1970s, she was a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar. She is known for how she helped...
The next artist you need to know is Polly Apfelbaum. She is an installation and mixed media artist. Apfelbaum’s most recognizable and significant works are the pieces she refers to as “fallen paintings” : these vibrantly colourful floor works...