Artist & Curator Tour and Conversation | Art Gallery of Mississauga
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Join us for an engaging afternoon at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) with exhibiting artist Winsom Winsom and the AGM's Senior Curator Shannon Anderson. This special event offers visitors an opportunity to tour the exhibition The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara alongside the artist and curator, gaining deeper insight into the stories, symbolism, and spiritual layers behind the works. Winsom will reflect on her decades-long practice and personal journey, touching on how its influences have shaped her practice. The discussion will also explore the process of developing this exhibition, and Winsom's collaborative project with her daughter, artist Tara Darrall.
Don't miss this rich and reflective conversation.
Refreshments will be provided.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Over several decades, Winsom Winsom has expressed her own spiritual journey through her multimedia work and shared her knowledge as a mentor, teacher, and advocate for the arts. For this artist—who has travelled the world and now calls Mississauga her home—art and life are inextricably connected. Her work explores themes of freedom, survivance, resilience, and renewal within the context of the Black Atlantic experience. As a person of African, Maroon, Arawak, Spanish, and Scottish ancestries, Winsom draws from her mixed heritage to incorporate extensive symbolism and ritual references in her work, interpreting the elements, land, animal, and human presence within the context of Afro-centric value systems.
Featuring both existing and new bodies of work by this senior artist and self-described “child of the universe,” The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara traces the trajectory of Winsom’s emotional, physical, and spiritual journeys. The exhibition includes an expansive collaborative project with Winsom’s daughter, artist Tara Darrall. Together, they explore the layers of their mother-daughter relationship through a suite of paintings. Guided by aspects of the seven chakras—the energy centres within our bodies—these works are a personal meditation on the artists’ intertwined development of their identities.
ARTIST BIO
An influential figure of the Canadian art world, Winsom Winsom has exhibited her work across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean, including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Image Factory Gallery (Belize), the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (Kingston), and the African American Museum (Boston), as well as group exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), A Space Gallery (Toronto), Articule (Montreal), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), and the 2024 Toronto Biennale, Precarious Joys. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards and grants, including an Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, the Marilyn Lastman Award from the City of Toronto Arts Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Since 2021 she has been based in Mississauga. Winsom is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto.
Funding for the Art Gallery of Mississauga is provided by the City of Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, Rama Gaming House, and Charitable Gaming Community Good.
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