Join us for the public opening of Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires, featuring an incredible DJ set by Kwame Younge & DJ Dave Campbell (What It Is!). Thomas makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power. Celebrate with the artist and view the exhibition. After the opening, join the artist in a talk about her work to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. Please note that tickets are required (but free) for the Artist Talk portion of the evening. 

6-7pm: Opening event. Free event. Cash bar until 9pm. 
7-8pm: Artist in conversation with Antwaun Sargent. Free event, tickets required. 

Mickalene Thomas makes paintings, collages, photography, video and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty and power. Blurring the distinctions between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Thomas constructs complex portraits, landscapes and interiors in order to examine how identity, gender and sense of self are informed by the ways women are represented in art and popular culture. Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn.