For the FINAL post in our Artist You Need To Know series, we’re honouring William (Bill) Kirby. Kirby is an appropriate person to end this series with as he has been an advocate for Canadian art and artists for decades, and his work with the Centre for...
The next person of importance in this series is Max Stern (1904 – 1987). Although not an artist, Stern occupies the same space as several previous features that focused upon Alan Jarvis and Jack Pollock. Stern was extremely important as an art collector, dealer...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Dorothea Rockburne. Dorothea Rockburne is a Canadian abstract painter : she is strongly influenced by mathematics and astronomy in her often geometric works that can seem superficially simplistic but that are her attempts to embody...
The next Artist You Need To know is John A. Schweitzer. Schweitzer is a Canadian artist, gallerist and collector who has worked in a variety of media, but is best known for his mixed-media collage where text is a major component. He often worked in thematic series,...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Lori Nix. Lori Nix is an American photographer known for her photographs of handmade dioramas that she creates in collaboration with her partner Kathleen Gerber. Nix has often been credited as the artist with these works, but many...
The next Artists You Need To Know are Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Known as Fischli/Weiss, they are two Swiss artists that began a collaboration in 1979 and continued until Weiss’ death in 2012. Their works were irreverent with a dark humour that often had...
