Press release
The Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its second show with Mickalene Thomas, myblackisbeautiful, featuring multimedia works by the artist. The show is accompanied by its third show with artist E.V. Day, Velocity Drawings & My Crazy Sunshine. The shows run from July 26, 2024 – September 2, 2024.
The artworks explore different perceptions and points of view, the balance of energy, and forces of change. Colored and neon works engage the viewer. The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on July 26 from 6–8 pm.
Mickalene Thomas’ works interplay collage, screenprint, painting, light and bright rhinestones. With feminist and political overtones, this series portrays models from 1970’s Jet Magazine editions in a new and dynamic light. Thomas alters the figures much in the same way that we can alter ourselves. The creative element permeates these changes, and the viewer is invited to embrace creativity in its many forms.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among others. She is currently the subject of a retrospective, “All About Love” at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Thomas received her BFA from the Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
E.V. Day invites the viewer to experience original spatial compositions of lines and color in her first solo show of two-dimensional work. Through mixed media she responds to the warp speed of our current environment. The Velocity Drawings are enveloping landscapes emphasizing thrust and wonder. Simultaneously, My Crazy Sunshine denotes the bright colors and loops that pull the eye around in circles and vortexes, which create a lack of gravity. Images of astronauts are collaged into drawings and create a sense of exploration within a vast environment.
Day received her MFA from Yale University School of Art, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has held solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and her works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; New York Public Library; and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, among others.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.