Lorna Simpson

The next Artist You Need To Know is Lorna Simpson. Simpson (born 1960) is an American artist who works in a variety of media, but with a focus on photography as her primary studio. She’s exhibited around the United States as well as internationally and became...

Betye Saar

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Betye Saar. Betye Irene Saar is an African American artist who works primarily in assemblage creating artworks that are direct responses to her political and social environment in the United States. Saar is also a fine printmaker :...

Jacob Lawrence

Our next Artist You Need To Know is among one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth-century, whose work was intensely personal but also stands as a fine historical narrative. Jacob Lawrence (1917 – 2000) was an American painter known for his...

Romare Bearden

Our next Artist You Need To Know once said “Artists have this desire for a vision of the world…There’s some painting someplace that’s not in a museum and it’s your idea as a painter to put that one thing that is missing there.”...