Our next person of note in our continuing Artist You Need To Know series is Alan Jarvis (1915 – 1972). Similar to when we featured Norman McLaren, Jarvis is important for his legacy of fostering spaces and communities that were – and still are –...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jo Manning (1923-2022). Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Manning was one of Canada’s foremost printmakers, specifically in terms of her etchings over a career that spanned several decades and garnered her several...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Guido Molinari (1933 – 2004). Molinari was a Canadian artist who was known internationally for his serial abstract paintings that were often massive and explored hard edged abstraction. “Considered one of the most...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Abraham Anghik Ruben. Abraham Anghik Ruben is a sculptor of partly Alaskan Native ancestry: he was born south of the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Inuvik Region east of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories in 1951. The...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Yves Gaucher (1934 – 2000). Gaucher worked in both paint and printmaking (the latter being the space where he first established himself as an artist), and his work is marked by an ongoing exploration of abstraction. In the...
