"Untitled" (Black Is Beautiful) By Mickalene Thomas Signed Limited Edition Print
Details
This sensual and uplifting print epitomizes Mickalene Thomas' style and the importance of collage in her practice. While the artist often portrays women from her family or social circle, the anonymous woman here is a reappropriated image from a 1970s pin-up called Jet: Beauties of the Month. (An offshoot of Jet Magazine, the calendar was advertised as the first "Black is Beautiful" publication of its kind).
Editors' Note
Artist Mickalene Thomas is a master of many mediums, including photography, video, sculpture and printmaking. Born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised by her mother, a fashion model, Thomas enrolled in after-school art classes at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey, and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City as a child. Later, she would earn fine art degrees from Pratt Institute and Yale University. Inspired in part by her strong, matriarchal upbringing and her own identity as a queer Black woman, Thomas focuses on female power, beauty and sexuality in her works. Thomas’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others. She has received such accolades as the Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2010, the Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award in 2012 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2013. In 2015, Thomas was named a USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow.
Details
This sensual and uplifting print epitomizes Mickalene Thomas' style and the importance of collage in her practice. While the artist often portrays women from her family or social circle, the anonymous woman here is a reappropriated image from a 1970s pin-up called Jet: Beauties of the Month. (An offshoot of Jet Magazine, the calendar was advertised as the first "Black is Beautiful" publication of its kind).
Editors' Note
Artist Mickalene Thomas is a master of many mediums, including photography, video, sculpture and printmaking. Born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised by her mother, a fashion model, Thomas enrolled in after-school art classes at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey, and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City as a child. Later, she would earn fine art degrees from Pratt Institute and Yale University. Inspired in part by her strong, matriarchal upbringing and her own identity as a queer Black woman, Thomas focuses on female power, beauty and sexuality in her works. Thomas’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others. She has received such accolades as the Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2010, the Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award in 2012 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2013. In 2015, Thomas was named a USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow.
Details
This sensual and uplifting print epitomizes Mickalene Thomas' style and the importance of collage in her practice. While the artist often portrays women from her family or social circle, the anonymous woman here is a reappropriated image from a 1970s pin-up called Jet: Beauties of the Month. (An offshoot of Jet Magazine, the calendar was advertised as the first "Black is Beautiful" publication of its kind).
Editors' Note
Artist Mickalene Thomas is a master of many mediums, including photography, video, sculpture and printmaking. Born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised by her mother, a fashion model, Thomas enrolled in after-school art classes at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey, and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City as a child. Later, she would earn fine art degrees from Pratt Institute and Yale University. Inspired in part by her strong, matriarchal upbringing and her own identity as a queer Black woman, Thomas focuses on female power, beauty and sexuality in her works. Thomas’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others. She has received such accolades as the Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2010, the Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award in 2012 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2013. In 2015, Thomas was named a USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow.
Additional Details
Created in 2017
Signed and numbered by the artist from an edition of 100
Inkjet print
14"H x 11"W
Framed Approx: 22"H x 17"W (frame not included)
Published by Nazraeli Press, Netherland
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