BARBARA ASTMAN "SELF-PORTRAIT" POLAROID, 1978Barbara Astman (b. 1950) is a celebrated contemporary Canadian artist, best known for her innovative work using photography and its many utilitarian offshoots such as scanners and photocopiers to mention a few. Astman is acclaimed for her pioneering multi media approach, blending analog and digital techniques with materials or technology not typically used in the creation of fine art. In her work she addresses the intersection of identity, feminism,

highlighting her signature arrangement of diverse forms that create an abstract / architectural composition

Over the course of 25 years

their languorous figures are strewn about as they surround the oversized phallus behind them

When the stock exchange closed its trading floor

The result is an airy

a hamburger

1950) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists

Here Stella rejects

we can only wonder whether it was from Warhol's imagination

Today we are accustomed to images of fetish

painted geometric shapes

Olitski's spray technique was an evolution or abandonment of this approach