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...
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...
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...
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...
The next Artist You Need To Know is Jack Shadbolt (1909 – 1998). Shadbolt was a painter who was one of the most significant Canadian artists of the post World War II era : he was important both for his abstracted and expressionistic works but also as a teacher....