Lee Bontecou

The next Artist You Need To Know is Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022). Bontecou was a groundbreaking American artist primarily situated in the art community of New York City. Her works are immediately recognizable : her abstract sculptures (her most prolific period was in...

Tony Urquhart

The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...

Deborah Turbeville

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Deborah Turbeville (1932 – 2013). Deborah Lou Turbeville was an American fashion photographer : before taking on photography full time in the 1970s, she was a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar. She is known for how she helped...

Polly Apfelbaum

The next artist you need to know is Polly Apfelbaum. She is an installation and mixed media artist. Apfelbaum’s most recognizable and significant works are the pieces she refers to as “fallen paintings” : these vibrantly colourful floor works...

Jack Shadbolt

The next Artist You Need To Know is Jack Shadbolt (1909 – 1998). Shadbolt was a painter who was one of the most significant Canadian artists of the post World War II era : he was important both for his abstracted and expressionistic works but also as a teacher....