About The Work
Produced exclusively for Fire Island Artist Residency, this edition of photographs is part of Mickalene Thomas’ ongoing subversion of the classical portrait genre of the female nude. Contrasting the coy white nudes and timeless backdrops that populate art history, Thomas’ muses are African American women in intimate household settings decorated in styles specific to the 1970s culture of the artist’s childhood. Here, the feminine subject, dressed in flowers and holding a bouquet, meets the voyeur’s eyes in a expression of sexual confidence.
About Mickalene Thomas
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Mickalene Thomas's Really Great Year
- Interviews & Features: IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with Tandem Press
- Interviews & Features: The Female Gaze: Women Artists on the Male and Female Form
- Interviews & Features: Female forms - shape making among great women artists
- Interviews & Features: John M Armleder and Kenny Scharf launch new swimwear with Vilebrequin
Photograph
Photograph on black and white fiber paper
10.00 x 15.00 in
25.4 x 38.1 cm
This work is signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
Produced exclusively for Fire Island Artist Residency, this edition of photographs is part of Mickalene Thomas’ ongoing subversion of the classical portrait genre of the female nude. Contrasting the coy white nudes and timeless backdrops that populate art history, Thomas’ muses are African American women in intimate household settings decorated in styles specific to the 1970s culture of the artist’s childhood. Here, the feminine subject, dressed in flowers and holding a bouquet, meets the voyeur’s eyes in a expression of sexual confidence.
About Mickalene Thomas
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Mickalene Thomas's Really Great Year
- Interviews & Features: IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with Tandem Press
- Interviews & Features: The Female Gaze: Women Artists on the Male and Female Form
- Interviews & Features: Female forms - shape making among great women artists
- Interviews & Features: John M Armleder and Kenny Scharf launch new swimwear with Vilebrequin
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