Sunday, October 20, 1 – 2pm
$15 on-site; $8 online; members and students free
About the Talk
Join us on the opening day of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love for an engaging conversation featuring Mickalene Thomas and exhibition curator Renée Mussai.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international touring exhibition on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas. The exhibition showcases a selection of vivid and multifaceted artworks—paintings, collage, photography, and video—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to today. On view from October 20, 2024, through January 12, 2025, in the Roberts Gallery.
Join us on-site in the Comcast NBCUniversal Auditorium or online via livestream. On-site registration includes access to the exhibition.
Mickalene Thomas. La leçon d’amour, 2008. © 2024 Mickalene Thomas
About the Speakers
Mickalene Thomas
Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is one of today’s most influential artists. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Thomas completed her MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 2002 and a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2003, and soon became known for her large-scale acrylic paintings of Black women in states of leisure and repose. Her confident and assured subjects are often depicted in domestic interiors from Black America, claiming the agency of womanhood while deconstructing the art historical canon. She lives and works in New York.
Photo by Emil Horowitz
Renée Mussai
Mussai is a London-based independent curator, scholar, and writer with a special interest in Black feminist and queer visual arts practices. From 2010–22, she served as senior curator and head of curatorial & collections at Autograph, London, where she organized numerous critically acclaimed group and solo exhibitions and was responsible for a diverse range of commissions, publications, and research initiatives. In 2023 Mussai served as chief curator and artistic director of the Walther Collection, New York, and Neu-Ulm, Germany, and as co-curator for R/evolutions, the 14th edition of PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin.
Photo © Christa Holka