Lévy Gorvy Announces Mickalene Thomas: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

 

 

 

MICKALENE THOMAS. Jet Blue #25 (detail), 2021. Rhinestones, acrylic paint, chalk pastel, mixed media paper and archival pigment prints on museum board mounted on dibond, 84.25 x 61 in (213.995 x 154.94 cm). © Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, co-founders of Lévy Gorvy, announced today that the gallery will host an international exhibition unfolding across its spaces in four world capitals—New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong—over the course of fall 2021, unveiling interconnected bodies of new work by acclaimed American artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, NJ). This multi-site presentation, 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. Presented in uniquely designed environments for each of the four locations, Thomas’ exhibition will also include a video made in collaboration with her life partner and muse Racquel Chevremont, an art advisor, curator, and collector.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy NYC

 

 

 

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Viceversa, 1971, Mirror, gilded wood frame, and wood easel, 98 7/16 x 35 5/8 x 19 11/16 inches (250 x 90.5 x 50 cm) © Michelangelo Pistoletto, Courtesy the Artist and Galleria Continua, Photo: Alessandro Scipiano

Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce a major exhibition of works by the renowned Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The first US presentation in a decade to feature multiple installations by Pistoletto, it will take visitors on a journey through one of the most influential and enduring artistic practices to unfold from the postwar period to the present. Lévy Gorvy’s exhibition will resonate with the themes that have animated Pistoletto’s body of work for over six decades: perception, time, history, tradition, and the relationship between art, artist, and viewer.

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