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Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and t锚te-脿-t锚te

14 Oct, 2017 - 07 Jan, 2018
This exhibition of more than 40 works by the acclaimed African American artist Mickalene Thomas also includes a selection of works by artists who inspired her: Derrick Adams, Ren茅e Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, Malick Sidib茅, Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Thomas is well known for her paintings encrusted with rhinestones, but she has worked in photography since she was a graduate student at Yale more than two decades ago. Her photographs draw on a wide range of influences 鈥 from art history to popular culture, from Henri Matisse's odalisques to images of 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson 鈥 but they all focus on beauty and what it means to be a woman.



This exhibition of more than 40 works by the acclaimed African American artist Mickalene Thomas also includes a selection of works by artists who inspired her: Derrick Adams, Ren茅e Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, Malick Sidib茅, Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Thomas is well known for her paintings encrusted with rhinestones, but she has worked in photography since she was a graduate student at Yale more than two decades ago. Her photographs draw on a wide range of influences 鈥 from art history to popular culture, from Henri Matisse's odalisques to images of 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson 鈥 but they all focus on beauty and what it means to be a woman.



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