In a special career retrospective, the work of the late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos is on display in Canada.
Abstract-style paintings that convey architectural structures—including apartment blocks, harbors, piers, and more—are hallmarks of the work of the late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos (1964–2012). Thomasos won numerous prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Canada Council Millennium Grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in painting. And we Denyse Thomasos: Just beyond – a career retrospective at the Art Gallery of Canada of Ontario, running until February 20 – more than 70 paintings and works on paper show how she challenged the boundaries of abstraction, imbuing her paintings with subjects from the other side they were personal and socio-political. Many pieces are debuting for the first time, and the curators are supplementing the exhibition with newly discovered sketches, photographs and documentary footage of her studio work. A fully illustrated catalog accompanies the display case.
