Topic: Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas, She’s Come Undone!

The Brooklyn Rail - 1015 days ago
Even the word dazzling is not up to the job of describing the kaleidoscopic array of visual pleasures Mickalene Thomas offers in her first solo show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery. Since the African-American women Thomas portrays in her paintings are in control ...

Mickalene Thomas, "She's Come UnDone!"

Time Out New York - 1031 days ago
At first glance, Mickalene Thomas's sparkly portraits of provocatively posed models hardly seem destined for the art-historical canon. In the front gallery, Thomas creates a minicatalog of inherited (and subverted) possibilities for expressing female identity, including an odalisque decidedly more modest ...