MICKALENE THOMAS "SCREEN TEST" SCREENPRINT, 2024 Donald Sultan "Orange Flowers" and formality as they converge

and formality as they converge with a graphic clarity

from Mother and Child

" and numbered "50/50" in pencil

"One down" is in the permanent collection of the MoMa

only the first 70 were rubber-stamped signed and numbered)

MICKALENE THOMAS "SCREEN TEST" SCREENPRINT, 2024 Donald Sultan "Orange Flowers" and formality as they convergeMickalene Thomas (b. 1971) is an American artist exploring the intersection of popular culture and art history, through a contemporary Black female gaze. As an openly gay Black woman, Thomas foregrounds sexuality, race, and representation, reconfiguring the conventions of portraiture to centre Black women as subjects of power, agency, and desire. Thomas frequently creates portraits of Black womenfriends, lovers, and museswho emanate a self possessed