Press release
The Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its second show with Mickalene Thomas, myblackisbeautiful, featuring multimedia works by the artist. The artworks explore different perceptions and points of view, the balance of energy, and forces of change. Colored and neon works engage the viewer.
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.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.