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Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights

By Ashley Knight

The Bass is presenting “Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights,” an installation that transforms the museum’s galleries into an immersive art experience. The exhibition is inspired by the parties the artist’s mother (Sandra “Mama Bush” Bush) hosted with friends and family during the 1970s and 80s to fundraise for their theater productions, including Put a Little Sugar in my Bowl, as well as to raise money for her treatment of sickle cell anemia. The first chapter of this project, Better Days, took place at the Galerie Volkhaus in Basel, Switzerland during Art Basel 2013. Better Nights unfolds into the second chapter of Thomas’ transformations of social “experiment” pleasures by re-imagining a black radical aesthetic.

Family photos of Sandra Bush. © Mickalene Thomas. Courtesy of the artist.

The installation embodies a feeling of home, yet also a speakeasy, conceptually reconstructed according to the domestic aesthetic of the period, including faux wood paneling, wallpaper and custom designed and reupholstered furniture with the artist’s signature textiles and mirrors. An extension of Thomas’ artistic universe, the installation plays with artifice, developed through intersections between real and faux elements. This exhibition incorporates both work by the artist and a selection of work by emerging and prominent black artists curated by Thomas.

Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, installation view at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December 1, 2019 - September 27, 2020. Courtesy The Bass. Photo: Zachary Balber.

Visitors can appreciate painting and photography by Nina Chanel Abney, Derrick Adams, David Antonio Cruz, Lyle Ashton Harris, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, John Edmonds, Alexandria Smith, Adrienne Raquel, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter; and video work by Christie Neptune, Devin N. Morris, Brontez Purnell; and a video work by Ja’Tovia Gary selected by Jasmine Wahi from Project for Empty Space. With the prop-like tableau echoing the collage-like compositional style of Thomas’ paintings and essential to this project, Thomas has created a program of live performances and appearances featuring Jody Watley, Meshell Ndegeocello, QUIÑ, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Mashonda Tifrere, Devin Tracy, CHIKA, as well as live DJ sets by Derrick Adams, YSL, Mel, Val, Dimples, Wavy Fox, and Papi Juice, among others.

Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, installation view at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December 1, 2019 - September 27, 2020. Courtesy The Bass. Photo: Zachary Balber.


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Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is a distinguished visual artist, filmmaker and curator who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She is known for the impressive range and complexity, encompassing painting, photography, video, film, performance and installation art that combine art-historical, political and pop-cultural references. Her depictions of black femininity re-imagines notions of beauty, desire, power, equity and resilience across mediums by taking archival material from her personal experiences, TV shows, adverts and music, and disrupting the narratives within various modes of building community and collective experiences. Thomas’s collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada and the Harlem Renaissance.

Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, installation view at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December 1, 2019 - September 27, 2020. Courtesy The Bass. Photo: Zachary Balber.

Thomas holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Pratt Institute. She’s held solo museum exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Monaco. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure” at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2019); “Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires” at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018) and Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2019); “Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me” at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio, 2018); Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? at MOCA Grand (Los Angeles, 2016-17). Other recent shows include group exhibitions “Figuring History” at Seattle Art Museum (2018) and “You Are Here” at North Carolina Museum of Art (2018). Thomas’s work is in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, and Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others.

Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, installation view at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, December 1, 2019 - September 27, 2020. Courtesy The Bass. Photo: Zachary Balber.

“Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights” is on view through September 27, 2020. The Bass Museum of Art is located at 2100 Collins Avenue. Miami Beach, FL, 33139 | www.thebass.org.

Ashley Knight is an arts writer based in Miami.