January 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Tuesday January 30, 2024
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join Chief Curator Sequoia Miller for an exploration of Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects. Focusing both on Odundo’s early influences and the connections between her work and the wide ranging artifacts and artworks on view nearby, this tour will also consider Odundo’s strategies for working across cultures and how that can impact us today. Gain insight into her creative process and the profound influences of artifacts and artworks that have shaped and inspired her throughout her career.
About the Exhibition
Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects features the exquisite sculptural vessels one of the world’s most renowned ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo. Her first exhibition in Canada and the largest ever presentation of her work in North America, the show brings together works spanning the artist’s career, including new pieces directly from her studio. Odundo’s work will be in dialogue with art and artifacts from many time periods and cultures, ranging from ancient Mediterranean figurines to monumental Abstract Expressionist painting, to explore the connections that unite us as humans. These dialogues, and Odundo’s practice, model working trans-culturally in ways that are neither colonial nor extractive, while interrogating the role of museum collections of historical objects as well as hierarchies of Western art. Learn more