Mickalene Thomas - I Can't See You Without Me by Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas - I Can't See You Without Me by Mickalene Thomas

Deconstructing the charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer Presenting paintings of some of the artist's key models and muses, I Can't See You Without Me illuminates the work of Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas (born 1971). Culling from art history and popular culture, Thomas creates scintillating portraits that deconstruct the highly charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer. Whether depicted as classically composed 19th-century odalisques, Afro-adorned vixens of blaxploitation films or as a powerful maternal figure yearning for social mobility, the recurring models in Thomas' compositions (almost exclusively women of color) convey a spirit of strength and self-confidence. Across this archetypal array, it is both their contradictions and kinships that make the black female body such fertile terrain for the artist's ongoing investigations. By casting herself, her late mother and other formidable women in her life as models, muses and collaborators, Thomas particularizes her distinctive oeuvre of portraiture. Focused yet expansive, the catalog both reasserts and further contextualizes issues of identity, sexuality and agency in Thomas' work that have only become more nuanced and palpable over time.

I Can’t See You Without Me is a touching monograph of Mickalene Thomas’ portraits and her deconstruction between sitter, artist and viewerOutlining how her subjects would often take on the form of 19th century odalisques, Afro-adorned vixens of blaxploitation films or a powerful maternal figure yearning for social mobility, the impressive essayists detail how these contradictions and kinships make the Black female body such fertile terrain for the artist’s ongoing investigations. -- Iman Vakil * Harper's Bazaar Arabia *

Fleetwood, Nicole R.: - Nicole R. Fleetwood is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her work on art and mass incarceration has been featured at the Aperture Foundation and the Zimmerli Museum of Art, and her exhibitions have been praised by the New York Times, The Nation, the Village Voice, and the New Yorker. She is the author of On Racial Icons and the prizewinning Troubling Vision.

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ISBN 13	9781881390572
ISBN 10	1881390578
Title	Mickalene Thomas - I Can't See You Without Me
Author	Mickalene Thomas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wexner Center for the Arts
Year published	2019-01-03
Number of pages	128
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