Untitled (Kingdom Come)

Art Gallery of Ontario

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”, “containers of moss growing green” and “green garden moss insulator”, a swath of red along the bottom is labeled “high tech cutting edge”. Across from the sketch is the close end of the long table displaying studio material, it’s furthest end has about 35 medium sized clear plastic containers, of the sort you might find in a grocery store or deli. In them are paint in all of the colours in the room and common colours in the artists work. At the centre of the table is a pair of clog style shoes, about a womens size 7, they are black and have splotches and drips of paint on them. Displayed at the closest end and to be viewed with the wall with the entrance to the room behind you, are 9 photographs of wall works in various stages including the artist in action and shots with a staging area with tables of multiple cans of paint. End of Audio Description. Exhibition label text: This is one of several preparatory works Thomasos made for Kingdom Come, her site-specific installation at Oakville Galleries in 2011. She marked up the paper with ideas she wanted to convey in her installation; scribbled across the page are words and phrases like “prisons as pods,” “boats, coffins,” “high tech. cutting edge,” “roof innovation,” “green garden,” “moss insulation,” and more. Through this glimpse into her working process, we can see how she came to infuse the mural, a futuristic urban-scape, with issues of class and race. End of Exhibition label text.