Mickalene Thomas
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Mickalene Thomas is an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art h
Left Behind 2 Again by Mickalene Thomas, 2012, Honolulu Museum of Art
Mama Bush II, Keep the Home Fires Burnin' (2006) at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022, an example of Thomas' work with rhinestones
Carrie Mae Weems
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Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s pho
Mickalene Thomas
…as a source of inspiration. She was influenced by Jacob Lawrence, William H. Johnson, and Romare Bearden, but most influential to her was the work of Carrie Mae Weems, especially her Kitchen Table and Ain't Jokin series, which were part of a retrospective held at the Portland Art Museum in 1994. Thomas describes the…
First panel from Untitled (1996, printed 2020), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC