Sunday, October 20, 1 – 2pm
Mickalene Thomas. La leçon d’amour (detail), 2008. © 2024 Mickalene Thomas
$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 Thomas and exhibition curator Renée Mussai.
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 Exhibition
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. Her intricate mixed-media art is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship. Whether in imaginative dialogue with canonical works from the history of art or playfully reckoning with popular culture, Thomas’s exuberant portraits offer an empowered vision of beauty and desire, formulated through a sensual, Black feminist lens.
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is on view from October 20, 2024, through January 12, 2025, in the Roberts Gallery.
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