Mickalene Thomas

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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New @TalkArt podcast! We meet leading artist Mickalene Thomas to explore her major solo show in London’s Hayward Gallery.

SEASON 24 BEGINS!!!! Happy Valentine’s Day! Our gift to you is Episode 1 of Season 24!!!!

'All About Love' presents two decades of work by the internationally celebrated artist and pioneering portraitist Mickalene Thomas (born 1971, USA). Thomas is renowned for her large-scale paintings of Black women radically luxuriating and in repose, adorned with vivid patterns and ravishing, brilliant rhinestones, as well as her innovative use of collage techniques.

Thomas’ depictions of women from her circle of friends, family, lovers and models are loving, celebratory and glamorous, with her alluring and self-assured muses exuding comfort and pleasure.

References to the history of European painting abound in Thomas’ work (including to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso). Her subjects confidently claim space within this male-dominated art history from which Black and LGBTQIA+ people have largely been excluded.

Featuring paintings, photographs, collages and installations, All About Love transforms the Hayward Gallery with bespoke wallpapers, textiles and furnishings nostalgically evoking the artist’s 1970s childhood.

Thomas’ art is steeped in contemporary feminist literature, and the exhibition title pays loving homage to the late American author and activist bell hooks.

#MickaleneThomas’ vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose.

Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is now open and runs until 5th May 2025. Learn more on Instagram: @Hayward.Gallery or by visiting:

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mickalene-thomas-all-about-love/

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0:19.9	Hello, this is Russell Tovey and Robert Diamond of the Talk Art podcast.
0:23.6	And we're here today to talk about two unmissable, exciting new exhibitions about to open in London, aren't we, Rob?
0:29.6	That's right, because this spring, the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank Centre, present two concurrent exhibitions.
0:35.6	Linda Danger Came Smiling and Michelin Thomas
0:39.5	all about love. Linda Danger Came Smiling is the first London retrospective of the artist's
0:45.6	provocateur and trailblazer showcasing in 50 years of the pioneering feminist artist's work
0:50.3	and dissecting our fascination with the body and its representation. The exhibition presents the breadth of Linda's artistic output across montage, photography, performance
0:58.9	and sculpture.
1:00.1	Michelin Thomas's All About Love presents vibrant, large-scale portraits of black women at rest,
1:07.0	reclaiming space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose.
1:13.1	The exhibition features paintings, photographs, collages and installations.
1:17.6	So from Tuesday, 11th of February to Monday the 5th of May, the Hayward Gallery will present these two unmissable radical exhibitions by pioneering feminist artists Linda Sterling and
1:28.1	Michelin Thomas.
1:29.2	Visit Southbank Centre.com.com.ukau.
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