Curators in Conversation: Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

About the Talk

Join us on the opening day of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love for an engaging conversation featuring exhibition curator Renée Mussai and Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes.

Join us on-site in the Comcast NBCUniversal Auditorium or online via livestream. On-site registration includes access to the exhibition.

About the Exhibition

Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international touring exhibition on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas. The exhibition showcases a selection of vivid and multifaceted artworks—paintings, collage, photography, and video—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to today. Her intricate mixed-media art is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship. Whether in imaginative dialogue with canonical works from the history of art or playfully reckoning with popular culture, Thomas’s exuberant portraits offer an empowered vision of beauty and desire, formulated through a sensual, Black feminist lens.

Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is on view from October 20, 2024, through January 12, 2025, in the Roberts Gallery.