Mickalene Thomas : femmes noires

Resource Information

The work Mickalene Thomas : femmes noires represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Mickalene Thomas : femmes noires

Title remainder

femmes noires

Statement of responsibility

edited by Andrea Andersson & Julie Crooks

Title variation

Femmes noires

Creator

• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971-

Contributor

• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Andersson, Andrea
• Crooks, Julie
• Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.)

Artist

• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971-

Editor

• Crooks, Julie
• Andersson, Andrea

Host institution

• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.)

Issuing body

• Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.)
• Art Gallery of Ontario

Subject

• 2000-2099
• ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
• African American art
• African American art -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
• African American women artists
• African American women artists -- Exhibitions
• African American women in art
• African American women in art -- 21st century
• Art américain -- 21e siècle -- Expositions
• Art, American
• Art, American -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
• Black people in art
• Black people in art -- Exhibitions
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Femmes artistes noires américaines -- Expositions
• Femmes dans l'art -- Expositions
• Noires américaines dans l'art -- 21e siècle
• Personnes noires dans l'art -- Expositions
• Schwarze Frau
• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971-
• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971-
• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971- -- Exhibitions
• Thomas, Mickalene, 1971- -- Expositions
• Women in art
• Women in art -- Exhibitions
• exhibition catalogs
• Art noir américain -- 21e siècle -- Expositions

Genre

• exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions
• Expositions

Language

eng

Summary

"Mickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger-than-life women stare back and down at the viewer, confronting them head on. Over the course of her prolific career, Thomas has created a body of work that expands notions of beauty, gender, sexuality, and race, offering a complex vision of what it means to be a Black woman. In Femmes Noires, Thomas moves breezily between pop culture and the long history of Western and African art, inserting images of Black women into iconic paintings. At times she poses them nude; at other times, she draws on elements as diverse as 1970s black-is-beautiful images of women, Edouard Mamet's odalisque figures, the mise-en-scène studio portraiture of James Van Der Zee and Malick Sidibé, and her own collection of personal portraits and staged scenes. Her ability to detect and contain contradictions and to wrestle with stereotypes translates into powerful, self-possessed depictions of Black women that confront and subvert stereotypes. Femmes Noires is a bold examination of Thomas's work and her artistic practise at an important moment in history. It blends writing from iconic Black writers and essayists (Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, and Lorraine O'Grady) with 120 reproductions from Thomas's oeuvre (collages, paintings, film stills, and photographs). Original essays by Andrea Andersson, visual arts curator of the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans; Julie Crooks, curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario; and writer-art critic Antwaun Sargent complete the book. Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires accompanies an international touring exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans. It will open at the AGO in late November 2018" -- Provided by publisher

Member of

• Works., Selections

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

NLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs