Mickalene Thomas: All about Love by Mickalene Thomas (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

ISBN-101636812996

ISBN-139781636812991

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Book TitleMickalene Thomas: All about Love

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAmerican / African American, Individual Artists / Monographs, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorMickalene Thomas

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight59.3 Oz

Item Length11.8 in

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ReviewsThe paintings of Mickalene Thomas are big, bold, gaudy, and beautiful, embedded with rhinestones, daubed with phosphorescent color, and composed like crazy quilts., Thomas reimagines our broken world restored by love, color, and sequence...From broken down barriers and shattered expectations, she reconstitutes a new reality where, in hooks's words, 'love's sacred presence can be felt everywhere.', Thomas has been depicting Black women at their best-glamourous, assured, sexy-for 20 years, artworks now found hanging alongside those of the white women which have always occupied America's most prestigious art museums., Meticulously installed domestic spaces set the tone for Mickalene Thomas's current exhibition, which features the work for which she is best known: sumptuous portraits of Black women in repose--the artist's mother, lovers, and friends., With around fifty works from two decades of her career, the show offers a focused look at [Mickalene Thomas's] practice and compelling dialogues with works by Monet, Picasso and Courbet., The scale of Thomas' paintings, often made of unconventional materials like glitter, sequins, and yarn, makes them feel larger than life, with the eyes of her subjects gazing directly at the viewer., Thomas makes her surfaces of powerful black women glitter with sequins as they offer a challenge to the viewer., Thomas's 'All About Love' is a meditation of sorts, certainly on love but also the particular realms in which love lives and can be wielded, through a deep consideration of place, movement, and a tending to Black queer possibilities., The Southbank Centre's Hayward Gallery is set to be totally transformed by Mickalene Thomas' large-scale, jewel encrusted, intricately patterned portraits, all with a 1970s aesthetic that speaks to the American artist's childhood in New Jersey. The work interrogates notions of what it means to be beautiful, powerful and loved: the title of this show is in honour of the late feminist writer bell hooks., If the rhinestone is artist Mickalene Thomas's signature material, then exuberance is the signature spirit. Along with their sparkle, Thomas's monumental artworks contain other hallmarks: stately women posed in bold patterned fabric with perfect posture and firm gazes., With influences ranging from 19th-century painting to popular culture, Thomas's art is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship. This major survey publication further affirms Thomas's status as a key figure of contemporary art., Thomas s 'All About Love' is a meditation of sorts, certainly on love but also the particular realms in which love lives and can be wielded, through a deep consideration of place, movement, and a tending to Black queer possibilities., Assembling monumental portraits of Black, female figures in repose, rest and leisure - a theme that the artist regards as radical and plays upon the work of European artists firmly established in the Western canon - the show offers a celebratory vision of the lives of Black women while referencing the omissions of art history., She moves a muse from making them feel comfortable in an environment into a photograph, into a collage, into a painting. And now, with recent works into a variety of mediums, whether silkscreen or dye sublimation print or neon or sculpture, it's a matter of renewed engagement, renewed looking at people she cares deeply about., Thomas reimagines our broken world restored by love, color, and sequence...From broken down barriers and shattered expectations, she reconstitutes a new reality where, in hooks's words, 'love s sacred presence can be felt everywhere.', 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., Her work builds on a simple but trenchant observation: In the long history of Western painting, monumental portraits of Black women are almost nonexistent. Most of Thomas' paintings pile on vivid color, brash patterning and lots of sparkling rhinestones, taking an exultant step toward rectifying the omission., These living room installations welcome you into the interior spaces where Black women find their sexualities and desires ... It's also a space where they can be confident, heal and mend. These are spaces where they love and are loved., In a society where identity formation is a cultural obsession, and is intimately linked to perceptions of beauty and stylishness, it is unsurprising that [Mickalene Thomas's] work not only traverses art, fashion, and popular culture, but that it is connected to each of them at its core., Her painted portraits, glimmering with the elegance of an affectionate gaze, present equally forceful reflections of the artist s love., Delivers an optimistic message: that memorializing (a mother or a movement) might be a way to love, that complexity might constitute wholeness, that a trajectory can ever be complete., She moves a muse from making them feel comfortable in an environment into a photograph, into a collage, into a painting. And now, with recent works into a variety of mediums, whether silkscreen or dye sublimation print or neon or sculpture, it s a matter of renewed engagement, renewed looking at people she cares deeply about., Her painted portraits, glimmering with the elegance of an affectionate gaze, present equally forceful reflections of the artist's love., Arranged in thematic chapters, 'All About Love' takes the reader through all aspects of Mickalene Thomas'extensive oeuvre, reproducing images spanning painting, collage,print, photography, video, and immersive installations., Thomas places her art at the center of a conversation between sexuality, erotica, and memory. She asks complex questions about identity, digs into family history, and at times becomes the subject of her own work., Half a century later, 'Evidence' has become canon without losing any of its charge. The questions it poses of photography's role as a tool of propaganda to uphold systems of power feels all too timely in our brave new world., I admire how, not only pose, but also materials come into play in her works as adorning elements - when I look at her works, in whatever medium they were made, words such as celebration, beauty, pleasure come to mind., I admire how, not only pose, but also materials come into play in her works as adorning elements when I look at her works, in whatever medium they were made, words such as celebration, beauty, pleasure come to mind., With around fifty works from two decades of her career, the show offers a focused look at her practice and compelling dialogues with works by Monet, Picasso and Courbet., Thomas has been depicting Black women at their best glamourous, assured, sexy for 20 years, artworks now found hanging alongside those of the white women which have always occupied America s most prestigious art museums.

SynopsisA major monograph chronicling Thomas' vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintings Contemporary African-American artist Mickalene Thomas has created a dramatic body of work that ranges from painting, collage and print to photography, video and immersive installations. The book -- and the exhibition at the Broad Museum on which it is based -- shares its title with the pivotal text by feminist author bell hooks, in which love is an active process rooted in healing, carving a path away from domination and towards collective liberation. Through her probing investigations of pop culture and mass media, Thomas makes a reverberating demand for Black women to be seen and understood, and for viewers to become what hooks calls "practitioners of love." With influences ranging from 19th-century painting to popular culture, Thomas' art articulates a complex and empowering vision of womanhood while upending traditional definitions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity and politics. This major publication further affirms Thomas' status as a key, influential figure in 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. Together, these essays 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., A major monograph 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 upending common definitions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity and politics. This major 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.

Text byGuy-Sheftall, Beverly, Moore, Darnell L., Rankine, Claudia, Conteras, Kristian