Photograph Magazine October 05, 2011 Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin By Jean Dykstra Mickalene Thomas, best known for her bejeweled and rhinestone - studded paintings, initially used photographs only as source material for her paintings of
voluptuous black women.
But it is dominated by her big, collagelike paintings, which often depict
voluptuous, imperious
black women amid swaths of brightly patterned fabrics.