Our next Artist You Need To Know is Tibor Csernus (1927 – 2007). He was a Kossuth Prize – winning Hungarian graphic designer and painter. Csernus was one of the most significant painters when considering 20th Century Hungarian artists. Born in the town of...
Our next Artists You Need To Know are the group known as the Hairy Who (1966–1969, also sometimes called The Chicago Hairy Who) : Art Green (b. 1941), Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940), Jim Nutt (b. 1938), Jim Falconer (1942 – 2022), Suellen Rocca (1943 – 2020)...
The next person of importance in this continuing series is Jack Henry Pollock (1930 – 1992). He was arguably the most influential figure in Toronto’s art scene during the 1960s and 1970s. With the Artist You Need To Know series we’re not limiting ourselves...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hortense Gordon (1886 – 1961). Hortense Mattice Gordon was a Canadian artist, arts advocate and educator : she was one of two female founding members (the other being previously featured Artist You Need To Know Alexandra...
Our next Artists You Need To Know are Komar and Melamid. The Russian born conceptual artists Vitaly Komar (born 1943) and Alexander Melamid (born 1945) have – for over 35 years – created artworks where they function as a singular entity, as their process...
