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Community Days (Free Admission), Public Open House

Public Open House: Denyse Thomasos : Odyssey

Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian artist whose epic paintings incorporate imagery from a range of sources, including Caribbean textiles, historic slave ships, industrial shipyards, graveyards, villages and maximum security prisons.  Thomasos’ art enacts a delicate balance between representation and abstraction, and holds a unique place in the history of Canadian art, adding to a narrative from which Black, Indigenous, and people of colour’s voices have for too long been excluded.

Enjoy free admission to the exhibition all day from 10am-5pm.

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Image credits (L-R): Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012), Excavations: Jodhpur Rooftops, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 106.7 x 152.4 cm, © Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery; Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012), Odyssey, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 185.4 x 243.8 cm, © Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery; Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012), Sparrow, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 182.9 c m, © Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery.