Our next Artist You Need To Know is Catherine Heard. She is an artist, arts writer and educator. She holds an undergraduate degree from OCADU, and a Master of Visual Studies degree from the University of Toronto. Heard “is an interdisciplinary artist whose works...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is artist, activist and art educator Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013). She is often described as a modernist sculptor, but her works are more nuanced than that. Her works have an ephemeral quality (perhaps an element from how the...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Abraham Anghik Ruben. Abraham Anghik Ruben is a sculptor of partly Alaskan Native ancestry: he was born south of the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Inuvik Region east of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories in 1951. The...
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 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...
