Mickalene Thomas: All about Love

Mickalene Thomas (Author) Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

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Description

A major survey chronicling Thomas' vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintings

New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas' critically acclaimed and extensive body of work spans painting, collage, print, photography, video and immersive installations. With influences ranging from 19th-century painting to popular culture, Thomas' art articulates a complex and empowering vision of womanhood while expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity and politics. This major survey publication further affirms Thomas' status as a key figure of contemporary art. It features notable works that are arranged in thematic chapters throughout the book.
The book also features an interview with the artist by Rachel Thomas, and is followed by essays from Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Darnell L. Moore, Claudia Rankine, Ed Schad, Renée Mussai and Christine Y. Kim, which cover her distinct visual vocabulary, drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment, autobiography, memory and tenets of Black feminist theory. In particular, they explore how Thomas subverts art history to reclaim the notions of repose, rest and leisure in works that celebrate self-expression and joy. For the artist, repose is a radical act, pointing to "what is able to happen once you have the agency."
Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) is an international, award-winning, multidisciplinary artist whose work has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel.

Product Details

Price

$60.00 $55.80

Publisher

Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Publish Date

June 18, 2024

Pages

224

Dimensions

9.3 X 11.8 X 1.3 inches | 3.7 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9781636812991

BISAC Categories:

Individual Artists - Monographs

Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General

American - African American

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About the Author

Mickalene Thomas earned her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute in 2000 and an MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 2002. Thomas participated in residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2000 3, and at the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program, Giverny, France, 2011. Her work has been included in countless exhibitions worldwide, including at La Conservera, Ceuti, Spain (2009); National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2010); Hara Museum, Tokyo (2011), Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2012); and Brooklyn Museum (2012 13). She is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.

Darnell L. Moore is the head of Strategy and Programs at BreakthroughUS. His writings have been published in Ebony, Advocate, Vice, The Guardian, and MSNBC. Along with Tamura A. Lomax and Monica J. Casper, he serves as a series editor of The Feminist Wire Books. He is the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America (Nation Books), a 2018 New York Times notable book of the year.

Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.

Christine Y. Kim has been Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, since 2009. With Michael Govan, she co-organized James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013), which won first place in the International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA) annual exhibition awards in 2014. She has also organized Teresa Margolles (2010), an outdoor sculpture project in collaboration with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), a non-profit organization for public art that she co-founded in 2009; and Christian Marclay: The Clock (2011). Kim was previously Associate Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she organized the exhibitions Black Belt (2003), Philosophy of Time Travel (2007), Flow (2008), and Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage; Africa, Lagos‒Dakar (2008), among others. Recently, she has been a guest curator of Art Public 2011 and Art Public 2012 at the Bass Museum for Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, and a curatorial adviser to Prospect.3, New Orleans (2014). In 2010 Kim won the New Leadership Award from ArtTable. She has received curatorial and research grants from the Turkish Cultural Institute (1999), The American Center Foundation (2002), Cultural Services of the French Embassy (2007), the Japan Foundation (2011), and Artis (2013).

Reviews

A constant source of surprise and delight.--Geoff Montes "Galerie"
The [works'] sheer physicality, and the powerful self-possession of the subject, challenge the viewer to engage with the Black woman who stands boldly in front of her domestic environment.--Hannah Silver "Wallpaper*"

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