«Gauvreau was a signatory of the famous manifesto, Refus Global (Total Refusal), formed and published in 1948 by the Automatistes (1940s) and led by Borduas. The manifesto rejected formal academic strains of teaching and the Automatistes were heavily influenced by Surrealism and automatism. Of all the members, Gauvreau's favouritism towards a subconscious approach to painting: the freshness, the immediacy, and the freedom, solidified his work as „avant-garde“. In 1977, after a hiatus of more than ten years during which his energies were absorbed by film and television, Gauvreau's colours intensified, his canvases grew larger, and he began working in a style that combined his earlier gestural brushwork with shapes and techniques associated usually with colour field and hard-edged painting: large areas of bright colour, geometric shapes, and the use of tape and collage to give sharply designated edges. Luxe, calme, et volupte» (Luxury, calm, and sensual pleasure) is the earliest example in this Retrospective “

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Gracia Barrios Rivadeneira (1927 – 2020) was a Chilean painter and the winner of the 2011 National Prize for Plastic Arts. The work of Gracia Barrios focuses on «human activity in everyday life.» Although she initially opted for figurative painting, towards the 1960s she changed to a more informal style, called «informal realism» by the artist herself.

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“James Havard has been producing paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures that defy categorization, ranging from abstraction and illusionism to figuration, combining and pioneering styles, and drawing from indigenous and tribal cultures and art history to create an exuberant visual language at once hermetic and universal. He first gained recognition in the 1970s for pioneering an approach to painting, known as “Abstract Illusionism,” in which individual brushstrokes and abstract forms were shaded to appear three-dimensional. By the late 1980s, he turned to figuration, populating his compositions with radically pared-down, roughly hewn male and female figures inspired by Native American, African tribal, and pre-Colombian art, cave painting, and children’s drawings, and recalling Art Brut. Raw, expressive, and, ultimately, enigmatic, these figures also appear in Havard’s boxed collages and sculptures—a medium he began exploring in 2002. “

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Contemporary Israeli Artist «All  my works are originals multi-layered acrylic on canvas combines the  practical world of industrial architecture recycled materials, with  symbols and concepts from the spiritual world. All are transformed  together onto the canvas. „(ORNA ADORAM)  

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Vivian Springford (1913 — 2003) was an American painter, affiliated with the Abstract Expressionism and Color Field movements of New York City in the 1950s to 1970s. In the late 1960s, Springford forged a new artistic direction that positioned her alongside Color Field artists such as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Springford developed a stain technique of centrifugal acrylic washes, which eliminated lines and allowed her to extensively explore the spectrum of color. Such technique is comparable to that of Kenneth Noland, who described himself as “a one-shot painter.”

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Angel Botello (1913 –1986) was a  Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was dubbed  «The Caribbean Gauguin» for his use of bold colors and depictions of  island life. Botello is considered one of the greatest Latin American  post-modern artists and recognition and demand for his artwork continues  to grow today, fetching unprecedented auction prices.

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Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James   (1937-2011) was an Australian sculptural artist, educator, linguist and  elder of the Thainakuith people in Weipa, in the Western Cape York area  of far north Queensland. She was the last fluent speaker of the  Thainakuith language and became a pillar of cultural knowledge in her  community. She was also known as Thankupi, Thancoupie and Thanakupi.

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Jackie Saccoccio (1963 – 2020) was an American abstract painter. Her works, considered examples of gestural abstraction, featured bright color, large canvases, and deliberately introduced randomness. Starting in the 1990s, Saccoccio was known for her vivid and evocative works of gestural abstraction, building on the work of artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell.Her works, inspired by abstract expressionism and Italian Baroque art, were part of a movement which emphasized adding vitality to abstract painting through experimentation with randomness and paint handling. Jerry Saltz, reviewing a 2007 show in The Village Voice, noted Saccoccio's influences: «Saccoccio's paintings come dangerously close to looking like mid-century abstraction, particularly the work of artists like Joan Mitchell and de Kooning. Yet if you spend time in this show, the old-school quotient subsides and sparks begin to fly.»

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Sorel Etrog (1933 –2014) was Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor. He specialised in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore his first-hand experience of the Second World War; the renewal of sculptural traditions in modern art, such as the use of bronze as a medium; and the opposition between the mechanical and the organic.One of Canada's leading artists in the 1960s, Etrog contributed to the country's growing interest in sculpture.

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