“Portraits and Other Likenesses”

Artist/Designer: Mickalene Thomas

Project Location: Unknown

Figure 1: Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007
© Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2016 | Photographer: Kaherine Du Tiel )

Figure 2: Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Qusuquzah, 2008. C-print, 70¼ x 56¼
inches.Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong,
and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2016 | Photographer: Kaherine Du Tiel )

Figure 3: Mickalene Thomas Instagram:
putting the finishing touches on the installation. ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2016 | Photographer: Mickalene Thomas )

Figure 4: Mickalene Thomas, Between Ourselves Again, 2015;
multimedia installation with single-channel video; commissioned by
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; courtesy Mickalene Thomas
and Artist Rights Society (ARS),New York; Mickalene Thomas. ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2016 | Photographer: Jolene Torr )

Style/Period(s):
Contemporary

Primary Material(s):
Wood

Function(s):
Exhibition

Related Website(s):

SFMOMA official landing page for announcing the exhibition | Accessed : October 31, 2016

A collection of images from the exhibition | Accessed : October 31, 2016

Significant Date(s):
2015

Additional Information:
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA
May 08-October 11, 2015
Museum of the African Diaspora

Organized in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), this exhibition explores how portraiture has evolved from a form of personal identification to a genre as invested in fiction, subversion, stereotype, and fantasy as it is in the description of physical traits. Featuring more than fifty artworks ranging in date from the early 1930s to our own time, Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA demonstrates how artists interested in issues of identity have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual-cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait. The carefully selected artworks — many exhibited for the first time as part of SFMOMA's collection — encompass paintings, sculptures, photography, media art, and installation, including key pieces by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Wifredo Lam, Glenn Ligon, Consuelo Kanaga, Nicole Miller, Chris Ofili, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Fred Wilson, among others.

The exhibition is jointly curated by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, guest curator for MoAD, and Caitlin Haskell, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA.

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