Dorothea Rockburne

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...

Alma Thomas

The next Artist You Need To Know is Alma Thomas (1891 – 1978). Thomas was an African-American artist and art teacher who spent the majority of her life and career in Washington, D.C.. She is considered one of the most significant painters from the United States...

Roger Selden

The next Artist You Need To Know is Roger Selden. Selden (born 1945) is a visual artist from the United States whose artworks straddle abstraction and more illustrative – even cartoonish – themes. He’s focused primarily on painting and has also...

Brenda Goodman

The next Artist You Need To Know is Brenda Goodman. Goodman is an American artist based in Pine Hill, New York, who is primarily known for her paintings but also works in collage and sculpture. The critic John Yau offers that “…Goodman had absorbed lessons...

Phil Guston

The next Artist You Need To Know is Philip Guston (1913 – 1980). Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein) was a Canadian American artist primarily known for his paintings, but was also a printmaker and muralist. Over his career, he moved from social realism...