Ruth Kaplan

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ruth Kaplan. Ruth Kaplan (born 1955 in Montréal) is a Canadian “documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behaviour of bathers in communal hot springs, congregants participating...

Gerald Slota

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Gerald Slota. Slota is an American artist and photographer who has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally : he “is known for a deconstructed style of working with his own or found photographs and...

Alexandra Luke

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Alexandra Luke (1901 – 1967). Luke was a Canadian abstract artist who was essential to the group of artists known as Painters Eleven. Besides being one of the most significant artists of that group Luke was also a vocal...

Barry Lord

Our next person of note in our continuing Artist You Need To Know series is Barry Lord (1939 – 2017). In this series, besides featuring significant visual artists, we have often highlighted those who helped build and foster cultural communities : in this regard...

Fanny Brennan

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fanny Brennan (née Fanny Myers, 1921 – 2001). Brennan was a French-American surrealist artist (working in paint and printmaking) whose unique approach is instantly recognizable : her artworks rarely were more than a few inches...