Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs
Mickalene Thomas
(Artist)
Mickalene Thomas
(Photographer)
Description
This volume is the first to gather together Mickalene Thomas's various approaches to photography, including portraits, collages, Polaroids, and other processes. The book also includes a section entitled tête-à-tête which features a curated selection of images by artists who she considers to be an artistic community of influence--from Malick Sidibé to more contemporary artists such as Zanele Muholi and LaToya Ruby Frazier.Product Details
Price
$65.00
$60.45
Publisher
Aperture
Publish Date
November 24, 2015
Pages
120
Dimensions
10.1 X 13.2 X 0.8 inches | 3.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781597113144
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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.
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.
Reviews
The large-scale portraits in Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs (Aperture) which publishes this autumn, combines aspects of classical odalisque paintings with those of fashion photography of the 1970s Black is Beautiful-era (when her mother was a model), among other influences, to examine race, sexuality, the artist's gaze, and the construction of images. -Advocate
Like a combination of Malick Sidibé's studio portraits of Milian youth and '70s blaxploitation films, Mickalene Thomas's photographs of black women are visually dynamic and positively genuine. -Art News
Provides the first overview of her dazzling series of photographs featuring black women -Harper's Bazaar
Thomas revels in a theatrical form of feminine display. -The New Yorker photo booth
Mama Bush's beauty is indelibly preserved in her daughter's ideal photographic images, enduring memorials to her mother, the pivotal muse in her work, her mirror reflecting a gaze between two women, and the self. -The New Yorker photo booth
Thomas is a playful and intense explorer of the self-preservation of beautiful women. -The New York Times Magazine
The black skin of these glammed-up superheroes is often the only thing in these photos that is not a riot of ornament and color, but blackness as photographed by Thomas is a riot all its own. -The New York Times Magazine
She's created a vast body of portraits that critically deconstruct definitions of beauty, race, and gender--specifically for black women&mdash: and redefine them on her own terms -The New York Times
Like a combination of Malick Sidibé's studio portraits of Milian youth and '70s blaxploitation films, Mickalene Thomas's photographs of black women are visually dynamic and positively genuine. -Art News
Provides the first overview of her dazzling series of photographs featuring black women -Harper's Bazaar
Thomas revels in a theatrical form of feminine display. -The New Yorker photo booth
Mama Bush's beauty is indelibly preserved in her daughter's ideal photographic images, enduring memorials to her mother, the pivotal muse in her work, her mirror reflecting a gaze between two women, and the self. -The New Yorker photo booth
Thomas is a playful and intense explorer of the self-preservation of beautiful women. -The New York Times Magazine
The black skin of these glammed-up superheroes is often the only thing in these photos that is not a riot of ornament and color, but blackness as photographed by Thomas is a riot all its own. -The New York Times Magazine
She's created a vast body of portraits that critically deconstruct definitions of beauty, race, and gender--specifically for black women&mdash: and redefine them on her own terms -The New York Times
