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We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

We’re all ears! Are you? As part of the Multisensory Art Cart, we invite you to find an artwork that inspires you to think about sound. You can use this curated audio playlist to accompany your journey through the AGO! Spend a few moments listening to the sounds in the playlist as you spend time with the artwork and consider: Do the sounds change the artwork? How does the audio affect your experience of looking at art? Did you discover anything new about the artwork?

Sacrifice 1989 acrylic on canvas Gift of The Estate of Denyse Thomasos, through the American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Inc., 2022 2022/9 Audio description of the work This work is a figurative painting in a portrait orientation and is about the size of a queen size mattress at 6 and a half feet or 2 meters tall by 5 and a half feet or 1.7 meters wide. It depicts a black horse suspended in a white cloth harness dangling beside a mound of skulls piled against an interior wall. The colours in this work are hues of browns with beige and yellow tones. With it’s body facing right, the dark horse dominates the top half of the painting. The harness has openings for the horse's legs and its tail. In the upper right corner is a high up small deep set window. It’s bright on the other side of it.The horse’s head is down and it has its nose in what is presumably a bag of feed. Thin rope dangles down at the far left and connects to a large heavy counterweight which is a long sack that lays on the gr

Untitled (Kingdom Come) 2011 acrylic on paper Collection of Dr. Carlyle Farrell Audio description of the work This room contains 7 colourful fast sketches and a table displaying photos and painting materials including shoes. The painted sketches are all in landscape orientation, two and a half feet or three quarters of a meter high by three and a half feet or just over one meter wide and focus on different motifs and approaches to painting a wall with a corner at the centre of it. The sketch beside the label with the QR code in this room has 4 colours : green, grey, aqua and red and writing marking out elements of the design. Along the top the writing points to floating pod-like structures which have the label “prisons as pods growing green” and “pods of boats , coffins, prisons” between these an area near the centre or room corner is marked “matrix prison”. Along the bottom are stair and ladder like structures lying horizontal, they are marked “rectangle roof”, “roof innovation” “roofing device”,

Arc 2009 acrylic on canvas Purchase, with funds from the Women's Art Initiative, 2022 2021/356 Audio description of the work Hung with its lower edge at bench height, This monumental painting is the only work on this wall. It is 11 feet or almost three and a half meters tall and 20 feet or 6 meters wide. It is an abstract painting in a landscape orientation. This vigorous canvas uses a kaleidoscope of patterns. It’s colours consist of black, light green, light blue, dark blue, pink, grey and yellow and will be described using a clock face. At its centre is a pod structure (topped by a little red house) and knots of black. The 8 o’clock to 4 o’clock area is occupied by two mashed together arching pipe-like structures made of grills, grids and black lines over multiple layers of bright colours. Between 2 o’clock and 4 o’clock, it resembles a ladder and then, the hull of a ship. From 4 o’clock to 6 o’clock and filling in most of the centre of the clock face is a mound of abstract human skulls. Some of

Sketchbooks and notebooks 2000s Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos Audio description of the work Eight open notebooks make up this table display. They range in size from a pocket notebook to slightly larger than letter paper size. In the middle of the glass encased table is a book open to a 4 colour sketch of structures. At the centre of the sketch is a low green circular structure that resembles a wheel with six spokes. It is surrounded by sketches of taller architectural structures in black brown or blue. Three other sketchbooks are open to what appear to be architectural sketches and the other books are open to pages with neat handwriting in black ink. A pad of parchment tracing paper is flipped open, it reads: My work is about cages. About enclosure. Being enveloped. I think of the “cage” as a political object. The cage is however an animal object. My idea is a visual object – it is not an idea really. It is like saying my idea is a “line“. That is not an idea – it is still visual. What is my

Rally 1994 acrylic on canvas Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery Audio description of the work. This monumental work is an abstract painting in landscape orientation. It is 9 feet or almost 3 meters tall by 14 feet or around 4 meters wide. This painting is composed of tight stacks of similar horizontal brush strokes in multiple vivid colours. There are 22 stacks from left to right and an average of 50 brush strokes in each stack. By this count the work totals 1100 repeated brushstrokes. Each column counts multiple short stacks. In each stack the same colour is repeated an average of 6 times; the predominant colours are orange, blue and red and less so, purple, white and yellow. The canvas behind the brushstrokes is painted with vivid colours which peek through. In the sixth stack near the top left there is one small section where the brush strokes line up vertically instead of horizontally and close by another small section has both horizontal and vertical lines. End of Audio

Dos Amigos (Slave Boat) 1993 acrylic on canvas Collection of Cadillac Fairview Audio description of the work This work is an abstract painting in a landscape orientation. It is 9 feet or almost 3 meters tall by 14 feet or around 4 meters wide. Taking up the majority of the canvas is an architectural structure shaped like a capsule which is broken open. It is composed of black and white cross hatched lines. Above it the sky is a crosshatched grey and white. Where the capsule breaks, the space between is filled with intersecting white lines forming an X. The lines in this work range in thickness from very refined to very thick. The vertical lines are the thickest, they appear in front of the structure. The left half is higher than the right and takes up the top two thirds of the canvas while the right half takes up the lower two thirds of the canvas. End of Audio description. Exhibition label text: The early 1990s signaled Thomasos’s shift into abstraction. In this work, she references the transatlant

Babylon 2005 acrylic on canvas The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College This massive wallwork is an abstract painting. With it’s bottom edge at bench height, the work is hung in landscape orientation. It is 11 feet or three point three meters tall by 20 feet or six meters wide. The artist creates a spatially complex scene with brushstrokes and rollers. The upper part of the landscape has some bent grey and blue lines forming casual swirls. Below and behind this are straight line brush strokes which pull upwards, grids and rows of lines make layers of abstract structures. These structures (including buildings, spaces of confinement, bridges, and boats) are also explored in many of her other works. This huge composition uses a palette mostly of creamy whites, shades of grays, brown, black with lots of blue background on the left and lots of oranges on the right. There are also pops of greens on both sides. Described from left to right: The artist has painted many vertical lines of r

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