Mickalene Thomas : Femmes NoiresTools Andersson, Andrea and Crooks, Julie and Danticat, Edwidge and Jost, Stephan and Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda and O'Grady, Lorraine and Sargent, Antwaun and Silvera, Makeda and Thomas, Mickalene and Walker, Alice and Ward, Jesmyn and Williams, Adrian. Mickalene Thomas : Femmes Noires. Toronto, Ont.: Art Gallery of Ontario/Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario; Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2018.
Abstract (English)"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." -- Distributor's website.
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