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 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...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Robert W. Fichter. A native of Fort Meyers, Florida (he was born in 1939), Fichter grew up in Sarasota, “where the ruins of circus impresario John Ringling’s unfinished Ritz -Carlton Hotel left an indelible impression on him;...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is more historical, but in this ongoing series we like to range into many different eras and arenas. Rodolphe Töpffer (1799 – 1846) was a Swiss author, teacher, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist: Töpffer illustrated books such as...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Sue Coe. Her works are unique, viscerally memorable, and she has been described as ‘an activist whose art is a blend of visual journalism, social protest, and propaganda.’ (from here) In many ways, Coe is a successor to...
