Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1988). A painter, mixed media artist and filmmaker, Wieland began her career in Toronto in the 1950s before relocating to New York City in 1962. This spurred her to begin working with new materials (in...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Carolyn Wren. Wren’s works are very labour intensive and monumental. Often they become an installation that fills an entire room. Her aesthetic is influenced by literature, specifically writers such as Virginia Woolf or more...
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...
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...
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...
