Mickalene Thomas contemporary women introducing 52 of the province's

introducing 52 of the province's artists and craftspeople and their highly professional yet dramatically different works

and the faces of family

" — Winnipeg Free Press

comporte des essais de la co-commissaire d’exposition Laura Ritchie

Mickalene Thomas contemporary women introducing 52 of the province'sMickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger than life women stare back and down at the viewer, confronting them head on. Over the course of her prolific career, Thomas has created a body of work that expands notions of beauty, gender, sexuality, and race, offering a complex vision of what it means to be a Black woman. In Femmes Noires, Thomas moves breezily between pop culture and the long history