Mickalene Thomas’s art in four cities

Levy Gorvy announced global four-city exhibition with an acclaimed American artist. Hong Kong is in the list, along with New York, London, and Paris.

The multi-site presentation will unveil in the gallery’s four spaces over the course of fall 2021. Beyond the Pleasure Principle will feature paintings, installations, and video works that “expand Thomas’ decades-long exploration of the Black female body as a realm of power, eroticism, agency, and inspiration, and a vehicle for reformulating familiar visual idioms of modernism inherited from some of the 20th century’s most influential masters”.

The closing chapter in Hong Kong will open on October 14th, showcasing the artist’s most recent sociopolitical series of large-scale paintings focused on Black American Civil Rights activists from the 1960s to the present day.