CHARLES PACHTER "HOCKEY KNIGHTS IN CANADA, C ", 1984In the early 1980's Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the TTC to do a Hockey themed mural at the College Street subway station. It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf's original home the Maple Leaf Gardens. Although the artist encountered a lot of interference with his pending designs due to copyright of the team's logos and from other TTC bigwigs (who insisted that the player be depicted wearing

The film centres around a class war between a gang of gay skinheads and a gay middle-class

In addition to several impressive grants

the National Gallery (Washington D

his hypnotic and minimal "Aluminum Series" from 1970 is a great introduction

in this work a dynamic figure seems to rise or hover above a rippling form interpreted as an ocean wave

Every so often we convince him to let us investigate his archives

and performance

1948) he has been admired internationally as one of the most daring figurative painters

and lecturing on behalf of the movement

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who authored several books and articles with a focus on abstract painters and sculptures

In the late 1940's Rivers studied at the Hans Hoffman School before completing his BA at NYU in 1951