Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK
April 15 – September 3, 2023
The Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond travelling exhibition has reached its second location at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon!
“A career retrospective, Denyse Thomasos: just beyond brings together more than 70 paintings and works on paper, many rarely seen, to show how she challenged the limits of abstraction, infusing personal and political content onto her canvases through the innovative use of formalist techniques. Through pattern, scale and repetition, Thomasos conveys the vastness of events such as the transatlantic slave trade without exploiting the images of those who were most affected.
The exhibition features sections devoted to the artist’s primary areas of research, illustrated with major works on loan from museums and private collections in Toronto, Montreal and New York City. Working closely with her family and gallerist, curators are supplementing the exhibition with sketches, photographs and newly uncovered documentary footage of Thomasos working in her studio…”
Read more about the exhibition here
Photo Credit: Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, exhibition view, 2023, Remai Modern. Photographs by Carey Shaw