Dora Maar

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dora Maar (1907 – 1997). Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Too often dismissed as ‘simply’ a model and muse for Pablo Picasso, any examination of her life and...

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 :...

Leon Golub

The next Artist You Need To Know is Leon Golub (1922 – 2004). Golub was an American painter whose work has been described as neo expressionist, and his works have both a dynamism and starkness as they responded to larger social and history issues. Best known for...

Niki de Saint Phalle

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 – 2002). A French – American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books, she was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle. She is recognized as one of the...

Jorge Galindo

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jorge Galindo. Galindo was born in 1958 in Madrid, Spain, and studied in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He’s been making work for more than three decades : his artworks are immediately recognizable for...