Our next Artist You Need To Know is Robert W. Fichter. A native of Fort Meyers, Florida (he was born in 1939), Fichter grew up in Sarasota, “where the ruins of circus impresario John Ringling’s unfinished Ritz -Carlton Hotel left an indelible impression on him;...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Badanna Zack. A conceptual artist who works primarily in sculpture, Zack was born in Montréal, QC but now lives and works in Toronto. “Zack emerged as a sculpture artist during the Minimalist movement, from which she rebelled...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ray Mead (1921 – 1998). Mead was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. Writing about an exhibition of Mead’s work at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1988,...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joan Frick. Frick (1942 – 2011) was born in Toronto and the majority of her artistic career took place within that cultural community. She was a graduate of École des Beaux-Arts de l’Université de Montréal with a Master of...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Graciela Iturbide. A prolific photographer perhaps best known for her black-and-white images of local people in her native Mexico, Iturbide frequently makes women the subject of her photographs, as she feels that they most perfectly...
