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I've Been Good to Me

2015

Mickalene Thomas

(American, b. 1971)
printer

Brand X

publisher

Benefit Print Project

(American, 2010-)
Culture
America
Medium
Mixed media collage with screenprint, mono and digital printing, leopard print paper, wood veneer, and silica flocking
Measurements
Image: 130.5 x 103 cm (51 3/8 x 40 9/16 in.); Sheet: 143.5 x 114.3 cm (56 1/2 x 45 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2020.226
Edition
edition of 20 (4 AP, 4 RP, 2 PP, 1 BAT, 2 donation proofs to charity)
Impression
Reserved Proof (1 of 4)
Copyright
© Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Mickalene Thomas’s interest in Jet and African American fashion publications was influenced by her mother, who dreamed of becoming a model herself.

Description

Mickalene Thomas uses collage to combine art historical and pop cultural references and question societal standards for Black femininity. Combining photography and printmaking, Thomas cultivates the aesthetic of publications such as Jet from the 1960s through 80s. This work features a woman who confidently adapts a pose from Impressionist painter Edouard Manet’s 1862 canvas Luncheon on the Grass. Each element of the collage was individually printed and hand assembled in a process that took over two years to complete.
Mixed-media collage of a cut-out of a person with medium-dark skin tone looking at us, wearing a green and brown patterned dress that reveals their legs, wearing pink heels, bending out to our left. On their right sits a white cat-like figure, a fragment of carpet-like purple pattern rests under their feet, green square-patterned chairs to the lower right, an open window with a railing the upper right, and various other fragments of pattern and color.

I've Been Good to Me

2015

Mickalene Thomas, Brand X, Benefit Print Project

(American, b. 1971), (American, 2010-)
America

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