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….textures at the Assembly Hall

On my walk yesterday I went further than I have in months. It was a cool but gorgeous day as I made my way over to the Assembly Hall. It was about a 6K walk there and back. When I reached the hall I discovered that there was an art show on display called Herstory. It was put together by a group of Women from the Niagara Women’s Collective (SWFT) showcasing unique stories of women with overlapping experiences.

Some of my favourite pieces were the soft sculptures by Debra Jackson-Jones and Mori McCrae.

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D3-ACD91-D-F475-4-FC3-9220-DFC8908-C1-E05 — *Debra Jackson-Jones: Covid Love: The Only Thing Living is my Virus 2022*

AF7-EE832-7783-4139-910-C-E9-D562538740 — *Mori McCrae: Big Green Apple*

A06-CE070-8484-480-A-BF80-B41736-D85924 — *Morie McCrae: Little Green Apple 2*

I also enjoyed Francie McGlynn’s paintings that included soft woven patches of fabric and hard edged buttons.

822-F0-BE3-5305-448-B-828-E-5-A19-B8994-A58-1-201-a — *How to Walk Your Dog in Times of Plague and War*

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B5961-D66-50-F7-4928-9-FCA-4-FF083-A23097 — *The Woman Who Held Odd Notions*

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For those of you who live close by, the show runs till March 29, 2023 at the Assembly Hall Gallery at 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr., Toronto, ON.

….thanks to Jez for hosting I’m a fan of….. https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2023/01/23/mallards-fan-of-192/

Denyse Thomasos was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. Sadly she died tragically in 2012. The first time I saw her work was at the McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, an art museum in Kleinburg, Ontario. I instantly liked her work and looked forward to seeing her show at the AGO.

The show is title: Denyse Thomasos, just beyond. It brings together more than 70 paintings and works on paper that she produced spanning the last 15 years of her short life. The first thing I noticed at this showing was the size of her canvases. They were large and some of them went from the floor to the ceiling.