The Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas creates visually arresting works in which she often gives African-American women a starring role. Her large-scale paintings, collages, installations, photography and video work take on the popular portrayals and stereotypes of black femininity and boldly answer back to them using her keen eye to break limitations. Not surprisingly, [...]
Lehmann Maupin Gallery - New York
By Anne Swartz
Even as she works in a range of media, Mickalene Thomas’s signature is clear and evident in her recent show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery on New York City’s Lower East Side. She’s looking at a bright view of the world and digesting a range of sources: [...]
By Claire Breukel
The Rubell Family Collection museum remains one of the top attractions during Art Basel in Miami. I use the word museum, as the collection of work, the first of which was acquired in 1964, is of the stature of most world-class museums. That would make the acquisitions committee a family one, comprised of [...]
