Mickalene Thomas
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Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity. This book, made in close collaboration with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her extraordinary career.
Editors' Note
Mickalene Thomas is one of the most influential artists today. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations dissect the intersecting complexities of Black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Awards nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to emerging artists. While embarking on her own monumental solo shows, she simultaneously curates exhibitions at galleries and museums. In 2008, Thomas made the first individual portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.
Details
Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity. This book, made in close collaboration with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her extraordinary career.
Editors' Note
Mickalene Thomas is one of the most influential artists today. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations dissect the intersecting complexities of Black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Awards nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to emerging artists. While embarking on her own monumental solo shows, she simultaneously curates exhibitions at galleries and museums. In 2008, Thomas made the first individual portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.
Details
Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the immersive installations that have become her signature. With influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, and celebrity. This book, made in close collaboration with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her extraordinary career.
Editors' Note
Mickalene Thomas is one of the most influential artists today. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations dissect the intersecting complexities of Black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Awards nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to emerging artists. While embarking on her own monumental solo shows, she simultaneously curates exhibitions at galleries and museums. In 2008, Thomas made the first individual portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.
Reviews
"Thomas's first comprehensive monograph ... shows how the artist, a queer, Black woman, engages deeply with gender and race." – Publishers Weekly
"A powerful retrospective of one of the most versatile and influential creatives today." – ELLE Decor
Additional Details
288 Pages
Published by Phaidon Press
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