Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey<\/em><\/a><\/span>, please join us for a virtual talk led by McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy and guest speakers Ga\u00ebtane Verna, Director of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and art historian Charmaine Nelson, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University.<\/p>\nDenyse Thomasos (1964\u20132012) 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. Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey celebrates the artist’s historic contribution to Canadian art, inviting a deeper understanding of the histories her paintings reflect.<\/p>\n
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