Art Gallery Of Ontario

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