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“The Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Hybrid Selves to Beautiful Body Horror”
Article by Alex Greenberger
September 5 2024
Denyse Thomasos at Olga Korper Gallery
“Thomasos’s abstract paintings often make a motif out of repeating grid-like forms, which for her acted as metaphors for means of containment. But the joy of looking at Thomasos’s art is noticing how this late Canadian artist broke down the very sense of order that she worked so hard to construct. The untitled, 17-foot-long painting from the ’90s at the core of Olga Korper’s booth, for example, could hardly be viewed as rigid: Thomasos allowed her grids to drip onto one another, causing them to appear to melt into her paintings’ dense backgrounds. One’s eye grows dizzy trying to make sense of it all, but the experience of taking in a gargantuan canvas like this one is nothing less than liberating.”
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Denyse Thomasos, Untitled, ca. 1990s. Photo : Alex Greenberger/ARTnews
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