"Presented by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, Conversations: Among Friends explores works of art as reflections of their political and social contexts."
"28 Days brings together the diverse work of Canadian artists with that of their international contemporaries in the United States and the United Kingdom to explore the staging of Black History Month. Featuring works in print, video, photography, painting, drawing, and sculptural installation, the exhibition examines the confluence of history and memory and its relationship to contemporary art and representational space. "
"To conclude the gallery’s 30th Anniversary exhibition program, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Body Gesture, an exhibition of historical and contemporary feminist art. This exhibition will feature several artists whose representations of the human body, as well as their physical art making processes, evoke the political."
"30 Americans" is an exhibition of work from the Rubell Family Collection and actually includes the work of 31 artists. The family decided to call the show, '30 Americans' rather than 'African Americans' or 'Black Americans' because nationality is a statement of fact, while racial identity is a question each artist answers in his or her own way, or not at all."
Mickalene is among the artists participating in a yearlong tribute to Romare Bearden and his influence, both on the Bearden Foundation’s centennial web site and in The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Bearden Project. “[The exhibition] will open to the public on November 10, 2011, but will evolve over the subsequent year as new work arrives at the Museum and works are rearranged in dialogue with Bearden’s work, each other, and concurrent exhibitions.”
"This exhibition will feature 39 works by 20th- and 21st-century artists who have extended the boundaries of art making. Drawn from area private collections, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view works that are seldom exhibited in public. Representing a range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, photography, drawings, and prints, Look Now provides an extraordinary range of perspectives on the art of our time."
"Posing Beauty" explores the ways in which African American beauty has been represented in the media in both historical and contemporary contexts. The exhibition features approximately 100 works drawn from public and private collections and is accompanied by a book by the curator, Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography and Imaging Department of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
"Re-Framing the Feminine demonstrates the varied strategies employed by female photographers to frame their experiences using the technology of film photography and digital media. Curated by Dina Mitrani, Miami-based photography curator and gallerist, Re-Framing the Feminine will include approximately fifty works. Its aim is to demonstrate what is particularly female in the capture and/or construction of a photographic image. The fluidity women experience as both subjects and objects in the photographic field is significant."
"Through artworks from the Sheldon Museum of Art’s permanent collection, Histories, investigates some of the approaches and themes through which historical topics are represented in art, and thus how they are translated and construed by different people during different periods."
"Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires" is a project commissioned by the MoMA for The Modern restaurant window on 53rd Street. The project was executed in two stages: initially, a large format printing of Thomas's "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires" photograph occupied the window November 2009 through February 2010. In February, it was replaced by the painting on three panels that is currently on view.
This solo exhibition will consist of all new work from Thomas, including significant departures from previous bodies of work. Future exhibition destinations to be announced.
“Landscape Majestic" is a new, large-scale print created by Thomas during a two-week residency at Durham Press in Durham, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2010. The print, Thomas's largest to date, incorporates woodblock, screenprint, collage, and digital printing techniques.
"This exhibition brings together approximately 110 works by more than 60 artists from Canada, the United States, Africa and throughout the African Diaspora to explore how new configurations of identity have been shaped by the photographic portrait within the last century."
Following its display in the Art in Embassies Program, which plays a vital role in our nation's public diplomacy through a culturally expansive mission creating temporary and permanent exhibitions, artist programming, and publications, Portrait of Mnonja, 2010, is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In her second solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, titled More Than Everything, Mickalene Thomas presents a selection of works on paper in an intimate, salon style. Thomas has chosen this mode of presentation as an echo, not only of the early Modernist salons made famous by the likes of Gertrude Stein, but also as a reflection of the array of influences and sources that collect on her own studio walls. Seen together, these many pieces, including a series of new large-scale, Polaroid photographs, drawings, and an array of collages, help to reveal an aspect of Thomas’s work that encompasses the multiplicity of her artistic and studio practice. Although Thomas has noted that not every painting has a collage, every image starts with a photograph, staged in a wood-paneled corner of her studio, and which directly informs and often serves as the basis of her elaborate, rhinestone-clad paintings that explore notions of black female beauty and identity.
