Piero Manzoni

The next Artist You Need To Know is Piero Manzoni (1933 – 1963). Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo was an Italian artist whose approach to art making had strong elements of irony and a caustic sarcasm, often with a hint of mockery that exposed some essential truths...

Oscar Cahén

The next Artist You Need To Know is Oscar Cahén (1916 – 1956). Cahén (sometimes spelled Oscar Cahen) was a Canadian painter and illustrator and is an interesting study in contradictions within an artist’s practice. He is, on the one hand, well known for being a...

Susan Bee

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Susan Bee. She is an American painter, editor, and book artist as well as being co-editor and co-founder of M/E/A/N/I/N/G with (previously featured AYNTK) Mira Schor. This is an “art publication for dissenting...

Neo Rauch

The next Artist You Need To Know is Neo Rauch. Rauch is a German artist whose paintings have a surrealist quality (though his work is more nuanced than that) that blend his own personal history with larger historical issues that often touch upon what it means to be...

Tony Urquhart

The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...