Hairy Who | 1966–1969

Our next Artists You Need To Know are the group known as the Hairy Who (1966–1969, also sometimes called The Chicago Hairy Who) :  Art Green (b. 1941), Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940), Jim Nutt (b. 1938), Jim Falconer (1942 – 2022), Suellen Rocca (1943 – 2020)...

Telford Fenton

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Telford Fenton (1932 – 2004). Fenton was born in Chesley, Ontario in 1932 and exhibited a unique, spontaneous style, employing strong colour and with an energetic sense of improvisation that complimented his discipline in...

Janny Fraser

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Janny Fraser. Fraser produces evocative mixed-media installations, working with mediums such as clay, fiber and found objects. Her art primarily focuses on “creating hybrid mixed media objects that deal with time as the vehicle of...

Nathan Oliveira

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Nathan Oliveira (1928 – 2010). He was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents: he worked with a variety of media, subjects, and disciplines over the course of his...

Daniel Solomon

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Daniel Solomon. Solomon is (primarily) an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush, from the Painters Eleven. David Bolduc (a...