In four new exhibitions this fall, MickaleneThomas explores the beauty of the female form
gallery empire. She left her previous dealer Lehmann Maupin three years ago, and although she will show at Lévy Gorvy, the gallery does not actually represent her—nor does anyone else. “The idea of representation is old,” she tells me. “I think it comes with the notion of ownership, and I will not be owned.” Thomas is defiantly independent and unflinchingly herself.
Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Yellow, Green and Blue Couch . Rhinestones, acrylic, oil and glitter on canvas mounted on wood panel, 84 x 96 in. The idea of being an artist didn’t really kick in until she was in her early 20s. “I learned at a young age, watching my grandmother and the women in my family, how to persevere,” she says. “They had resilience, just in the daily grind of being Black people in America.” As a teenager, she quit high school and moved to Portland, Oregon, with her girlfriend to avoid telling her mother she was queer.
Thomas finished high school in Portland, then went to Pratt Institute in New York City. She spent time as an exchange student at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia. Pratt led to the Yale School of Art, where she got her graduate degree in 2002. Her work at Pratt had been abstract, but at Yale she took a photography class with David Hilliard, and that changed everything. He suggested she photograph her mother.
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