Bram van Velde

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Bram van Velde (1895–1981). van Velde was a Dutch painter whose work was expressive, with dynamic brushstrokes and abstracted forms that often took shape in his use of paint, strongly influenced by art history but also a unique...

Joyce Wieland

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1988). A painter, mixed media artist and filmmaker, Wieland began her career in Toronto in the 1950s before relocating to New York City in 1962. This spurred her to begin working with new materials (in...

Nathan Oliveira

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Nathan Oliveira (1928 – 2010). He was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents: he worked with a variety of media, subjects, and disciplines over the course of his...

Caroll Dunham

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Caroll Dunham. Carroll Dunham is an American painter and sculptor who’s been exhibiting since the 1970s, but whose artwork began to garner significant attention in the 1980s. An artist who straddles abstraction and figurative...

Markus Lüpertz

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Markus Lüpertz. He is a painter, sculptor, and writer known just as much for his irreverent humour as for sculpture and paintings. Lüpertz was part of an engaging post WWII generation of artists in Germany (perhaps the best known of...