Dana Schutz

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dana Schutz. Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is known for her expressive and gestural paintings that often take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a starting point, for...

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...

Hannah Höch

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978). Höch is arguably one of the best known of the German Dada artists of the early twentieth century, and specifically the Weimar period (1919–1933) in Germany. She developed the process of photomontage...

Patrick Traer

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Patrick Traer. Traer’s background incorporates writing and psychology. He earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from York University, Toronto. He was a professor of fine arts at the...

Françoise Gilot

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Françoise Gilot (b. 1921). “I must cancel the emptiness of the canvas like an opening gambit in a game of chess,” Françoise Gilot once declared. She was a member of the School of Paris in the 1940s, and “has been pursuing a...