In 1984, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root were four young art students at Emily Carr College of Art & Design who drew the attention of the Canadian art scene with their innovative, large, gestural, and heavily worked, paintings. This part of the eight "Young Romantics" painted closely together in a shared studio for several years. Calling themselves "FUTURA BOLD", they first exhibited together in 1984.

This exhibition is witness to how the work of these four has evolved over the years and earned them the stature they have achieved both nationally and internationally.

At the very beginning of their careers, Scott Watson, then VAG curator, wrote, "These paintings rivet one's attention. They make the earnestness of the majority of Canadian art seem merely square. For this is the first generation of Canadian artists to take a perverse stance, to shrug their shoulders in mock incomprehension when asked to account for themselves. They are young, at the very beginnings of their careers as artists and will lead lives well into the next century. They are cunning and talented and already to accept them is to accept a mild poison. We can only wish them well in concocting yet stronger doses."

This exhibition is witness to how the work of these four has evolved over the years and earned them the stature they have achieved both nationally and internationally.