Mickalene Thomas : I can't see you without me
Presenting paintings of some of the artist's key models and muses, 'I Can't See You Without Me' illuminates the work of Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas (born 1971). Culling from art history and popular culture, Thomas creates scintillating portraits that deconstruct the highly...
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| Summary: | Presenting paintings of some of the artist's key models and muses, 'I Can't See You Without Me' illuminates the work of Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas (born 1971). Culling from art history and popular culture, Thomas creates scintillating portraits that deconstruct the highly charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer. Whether depicted as classically composed 19th-century odalisques, Afro-adorned vixens of blaxploitation films or as a powerful maternal figure yearning for social mobility, the recurring models in Thomas' compositions (almost exclusively women of color) convey a spirit of strength and self-confidence. Across this archetypal array, it is both their contradictions and kinships that make the black female body such fertile terrain for the artist's ongoing investigations. By casting herself, her late mother and other formidable women in her life as models, muses and collaborators, Thomas particularizes her distinctive oeuvre of portraiture. Focused yet expansive, the catalog both reasserts and further contextualizes issues of identity, sexuality and agency in Thomas' work that have only become more nuanced and palpable over time. |
| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Sept. 14-Dec 30, 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Published: |
Columbus, Ohio :
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University,
[2018]
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| ISBN: | 9781881390572 1881390578 |
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| 264 | 1 | |a Columbus, Ohio : |b Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, |c [2018] | |
| 264 | 2 | |a New York : |b Distributed by Artbook/D.A.P., |c [2018] | |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction: pleasure and reckoning / |r Michael Goodson -- |t Mama as muse / |r Antwaun Sargent -- |t Michalene Thomas's world making / |r Nicole R. Fleetwood -- |t Rebel woman / |r Beverly Guy-Sheftall. |
| 520 | |a Presenting paintings of some of the artist's key models and muses, 'I Can't See You Without Me' illuminates the work of Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas (born 1971). Culling from art history and popular culture, Thomas creates scintillating portraits that deconstruct the highly charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer. Whether depicted as classically composed 19th-century odalisques, Afro-adorned vixens of blaxploitation films or as a powerful maternal figure yearning for social mobility, the recurring models in Thomas' compositions (almost exclusively women of color) convey a spirit of strength and self-confidence. Across this archetypal array, it is both their contradictions and kinships that make the black female body such fertile terrain for the artist's ongoing investigations. By casting herself, her late mother and other formidable women in her life as models, muses and collaborators, Thomas particularizes her distinctive oeuvre of portraiture. Focused yet expansive, the catalog both reasserts and further contextualizes issues of identity, sexuality and agency in Thomas' work that have only become more nuanced and palpable over time. | ||
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