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Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971), Just a Whisper Away | Christie's

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The Magical, Mystical Muses of Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas. Racquel Reclining Wearing Purple Jumpsuit , 2015. Rhinestones, glitter, flock, acrylic, and oil on wood panel. 96 x 144 in. The Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection Mickalene Thomas.…

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#MKGWatchlist: In Mickalene Thomas's "Sugar Baby", the artist reinterprets the art historical canon of portraiture while celebrating black femininity. Click our link in bio to check it out in Levy Gorvy's online viewing room!⁠ ⁠ Mickalene Thomas, Sugar Baby, 2004, Acrylic and rhinestones on panel, 48.0 x 36.0 (inch)⁠ ⁠ “I wanted to celebrate black femininity, and that sexuality, in a different way, by claiming the space that seemed to be voided for a while... and started thinking about art histo Mickalene Thomas, Afrofuturism Art, Art Matters, Contemporary Portrait, Afrocentric Art, Black Femininity, Pulp Art, Popular Art, A Level Art

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#MKGWatchlist: In Mickalene Thomas's "Sugar Baby", the artist reinterprets the art historical canon of portraiture while celebrating black femininity. Click our link in bio to check it out in Levy Gorvy's online viewing room!⁠ ⁠ Mickalene Thomas, Sugar Baby, 2004, Acrylic and rhinestones on panel, 48.0 x 36.0 (inch)⁠ ⁠ “I wanted to celebrate black femininity, and that sexuality, in a different way, by claiming the space that seemed to be voided for a while... and started thinking about art…

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In Four New Exhibitions This Fall, Mickalene Thomas Explores the Beauty of the Female Form

"What I’m doing is reimagining Jet’s representation of African American women as objects of desire by composing the figures within ornamental tableaux to exhibit Black female empowerment.”

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Jennifer Blessing on the photography of Mickalene Thomas, who immortalizes her mother, Sandra Bush, and other “muses.”

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Mickalene Thomas at Giverny » Telfair Museums

Mickalene Thomas at Giverny is an exhibition at Telfair Museums .

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Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Musuem...... I’ve seen Mickalene Thomas’s work before, in bits and scraps here and there, and early on I dismissed it as gaudy- not gaudy in a sophisticated way, but rather as the not-yet-matured kitsch of grad school art girls who can’t help putting glitter and unicorns in their work. And then the work occasionally showed up in museums, and it was big- bright and clumsy, but on an ambitious scale that made me re-think things. Possibly there was more to this…

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How Mickalene Thomas Is Ushering in a New Wave of Contemporary Art

The celebrated portraitist’s glittering images of black women upend tradition

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20th century and contemporary photography including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman, Sharon Core, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley.

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