Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jaan Poldaas (1948-2018). Poldaas was a painter best known for his hard-edge abstract painting, both in his prolific production and as an advocate for this art form. Since the 1970s Poldaas’ “sophisticated and rigorous...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joanne Tod. She is a Canadian contemporary artist and teacher whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally for the past thirty years. From the Canada Council Art Bank : “Evolving from an early interest in...
The next person of importance in this continuing series is Jack Henry Pollock (1930 – 1992). He was arguably the most influential figure in Toronto’s art scene during the 1960s and 1970s. With the Artist You Need To Know series we’re not limiting ourselves...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Vincenzo Pietropaolo. Pietropaolo is a documentary photographer who captures his subjects and the situations they exist within with a strong sense of empathy and the historical moment, straddling the ideas of the personal experience...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Telford Fenton (1932 – 2004). Fenton was born in Chesley, Ontario in 1932 and exhibited a unique, spontaneous style, employing strong colour and with an energetic sense of improvisation that complimented his discipline in...
