While Thomasos’ paintings refer to the systems and structures that shape our world, they are also deeply personal. The thick, opaque and accumulating forms also reference the sense of exile felt by her father, who died three months before she went to graduate school. She described her father as “a brilliant physicist and mathematician whom I saw suffer under racism in Canada. in art and art history from the University of Toronto in 1987 and an M.F.A. at the Yale University School of Art in 1989.

Source: thestar March 24, 2022 04:40 UTC