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Mickalene Thomas in Femme Fatal: Gaze - Power - Gender : Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum

Past exhibition
9 December 2022 - 10 April 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
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Mickalene Thomas USA, b. 1971

Racquel Come To Me, 2019
Wool, Lyocell, Linen & Silk. Hand knotted, Tibetan weave.
90.5 x 118 in
230 x 300 cm
Unframed.

Edition of 10 + 1 AP
7425

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 8 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 9 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 10 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 11 ) Mickalene Thomas, Racquel Come To Me, 2019
  • Racquel Come To Me
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Titled Racquel Come to Me, is adapted from a unique photo drawing collage created for specifically this project. The shape is irregular and free-form and combines visual elements that create...
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Titled Racquel Come to Me, is adapted from a unique photo drawing collage created for specifically this project. The shape is irregular and free-form and combines visual elements that create a landscape of references from art history, popular culture and politics. Various levels of pile heights, carving and cutting techniques have been utilized to create an exquisite work of art. Each hand-made piece in the edition run is inherently unique due to the artisan practices used in the design’s 6-month making. The nature of the media at hand, a hand knotted rug, is a natural complement to components utilized in Thomas’ immersive installations that utilize textiles, wallpaper, furniture and decor objects to reconstruct the 1970s domestic aesthetic that was formative to her visual narrative. Thomas’ work stems from her long study of art history and classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Inspired by various sources that range from the 19th century Hudson river school to Édouard Manet, Alice Neel, and Romare Bearden, she has created a true signature style and continues to explore notions of beauty from a contemporary perspective infused with the more recent influences of popular culture and pop art, redefining contemporary ideas of portraiture. In combining traditional genres with African American female subjects, Thomas makes a case for opening up the conventional parameters of art history and culture. Thomas’s layered process of fragmentation, in which she begins with a photographic portrait and moves to collage and then on to painting, is the result of discreet borrowings from our twenty-first century language of mass culture. Strategically placed objects in her photographs come into sharper relief during the collage stage as deliberately exposed tape and abrupt lines between forms frame our perspective, focusing us on the distinct cultural languages that she puts on view. Mickalene Thomas first rug for Henzel Studio, titled Candy Crush, was unveiled at Barneys New York Madison Avenue during Frieze Art Fair in 2014. Racquel Come to Me debuts at Rossana Orlandi.

The lead time for the production of this tapestry is normally 15-20 weeks, not including shipping times.
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