Mickalene Thomas is used to baring everything in her ... That includes nudes of her and her mom. The video portrait Me As Muse (2016) displays Thomas’ reclined naked body across a dozen monitors ...

As her new exhibitions opens in London, Mickalene Thomas talks about using her mother as a muse, taking inspiration from bell hooks, and why these pieces are about love for Black women.

On the entrance to the left, we have All About Love, the first London retrospective of African-American artist Mickalene ... Me as Muse (2016) – where the screens show Thomas posing naked ...

American artist Mickalene Thomas sensually ... Collage does this for me.’ Featured works include large-scale pieces in acrylic and rhinestones, the latter symbolising the complexity of femininity for ...

And it made me realise that, while Thomas’s world and her aesthetic are totally alien to me, that does not make them invalid. The next road-to-Damascus epiphany was a collage whose elements could have ...

“Partnering with Mickalene Thomas is a true ‘pinch me’ moment. I simply cannot wait to race the first-ever Mickalene Thomas x McLaren Artura. This race car is making history!” exclaims Barr ...

They have real talent and are still underrepresented.” Zoë Barry, Aurora Straus, Spring McManus and Mickalene Thomas. Image courtesy of Kelsey H Campbell Photography An idea began to take shape ...

Linder saw the path that society had laid out before her and she said, no thanks, not for me. Despite the liberation ... are an approach that Mickalene Thomas shares with Linder.

For the artist Mickalene Thomas ... and it occurred to me that a lot of my images are rooted in love and the different forms it takes, whether strength, vulnerability or desire.” Coming to this ...

As her new exhibitions opens in London, Mickalene Thomas talks about using her mother as a muse, taking inspiration from bell hooks, and why these pieces are about love for Black women.