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Denyse Thomasos at the Vancouver Art Gallery by Nathan Jones

Process is an insistence of structure.
Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012)

Virtual Incarceration (1999). Acrylic on canvas.


Metropolis (2007). Acrylic, charcoal and porous-point marker on canvas.


Excavations: Courtyards in Surveillance (2007). Acrylic on canvas.

A wonderful afternoon with Sofia at the Vancouver Art Gallery after a delicious dad-and-daughter brunch at Sophie’s Cosmic Café on the first day of spring break. The works of the Trinidadian-Canadian painter Denyse Thomasos provoked strong positive reactions and much animated conversation. (The full-scale images and details of the three paintings shown above were made on my iPhone. These photographs do not do the works justice. They are enormous and must be experienced in person.)