Our next Artist You Need To Know is Paraskeva Clark (1898 – 1986). A Russian – Canadian painter, Paraskeva Clark was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters (1936); the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (1937); Canadian Society of Graphic Art...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ray Mead (1921 – 1998). Mead was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. Writing about an exhibition of Mead’s work at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1988,...
Our latest Artist You Need To Know is Xiaojing Yan 闫晓静. She is a Chinese-Canadian artist whose “work embraces her sense of having a hybrid identity.” (from her site) Curator and critic Suzanne Luke offers the following about Yan’s art : “Yan’s...
Our latest Artist You Need To Know is David Hlynsky. Hlynsky was born in the United States, but emigrated to Canada in 1971. His grandparents had left Poland and the Ukraine around 1912, for North America. He attended Ohio State University from 1965 to 1970, earning a...
As we mark that our continuing Artists You Need To Know series has reached the milestone of 100 artists, it is a good time to turn the spotlight on the two artists who are Art Is Hell / AIH Studios with features about them. This week’s Artist You Need To Know is...