GENERAL IDEA “ABCs” METAL LEAF ON RICE PAPER, 1984In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945 1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944 1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant contribution to postmodern and conceptual art in Canada and beyond. The group was both prolific and multi disciplinary long before it became de rigueur. They worked with photography, sculpture, painting, mail art, video, installation, multiples, and performance. With their

Charles Pachter’s work frequently explores iconic images of Canada that are both patriotic and playful

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts held a retrospective of McEwen’s work followed by another in 2019

He would represent Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1959

The complex background was created by layering and washing contrasting berry red tones then over-layed with a dynamic platinum white paint that is draped with momentum around the page

playful and optimistic

it allows the viewer to assess ideologies divorced from the personalities that propel them

Signed and dated on verso

This early and iconic screenprint features a found image of Glenn Lewis aka "Flakey"

Weegee was celebrated in his age

their ghostly figure blending into the ethereal environment

and consumerism

She first began making comic-strip style drawings as a child to cope after the death of her parents