You’re Invited: Opening Reception Celebration – Fragments of Epic Memory

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Dear Volunteers,

In 2020, for the first time ever, all volunteers of the AGO had an opportunity to vote on a gallery project to support with funds from the Volunteer Endowment Trust (VET). You chose to support research into the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs, and it’s resulting exhibition. This September, the first exhibit organized by the AGO’s new Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora presents: Fragments of Epic Memory and we invite you as exhibition sponsors to join us for an online virtual toast on Thursday September 2nd. Please see the invite below and we hope to see you (virtually) then!

All the best,
Maya Kotlarenko (she/her)
Volunteer President, AGO

Please join us for a virtual toast – including music, remarks and art – as we celebrate the opening of Fragments of Epic Memory along with fellow exhibition supporters!

  • Thursday, September 2
  • 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
  • Via Zoom
  • Meeting ID: 954 7140 5942
  • Passcode: 680764
IMAGE: Paul Anthony Smith, Untitled, 7 Women, 2019. Unique picotage on inkjet print, coloured pencil, spray paint on museum board, 101.6 x 127 cm. The Hott Collection, New York © Paul Anthony Smith. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
IMAGE: Paul Anthony Smith, Untitled, 7 Women, 2019. Unique picotage on inkjet print, coloured pencil, spray paint on museum board, 101.6 x 127 cm. The Hott Collection, New York © Paul Anthony Smith. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

Fragments of Epic Memory will invite visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today.

The first exhibition organized by the AGO’s new Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, it will blend historical and contemporary narratives, presenting more than 200 photographs from the AGO’s Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings, sculpture, and video works by modern and contemporary Caribbean artists that show how the region’s histories are constantly revisited and reimagined through artistic production over time.

Fragments of Epic Memory is curated by Julie Crooks, Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora and will feature a new commission by Sandra Brewster and art works by Ebony Patterson, Frank Bowling, and Manuel Mathieu to name just a few.