Two women with afros sit in a colourful setting, featuring vibrant patterns and floral designs in the background.

Mickalene Thomas

A Moment’s Pleasure #2

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Mickalene Thomas presents a shimmering, richly layered limited edition print of a signature double portrait.

A Moment’s Pleasure #2, created in 2008, depicts two women sharing a familiar and unguarded moment of closeness in a domestic setting. Like much of Mickalene’s work, the boldly textured composition shows intimacy as something lived and accumulated through small acts, rather than grand gestures – creating a space where love exists without performance.

This limited edition print is the result of an intricate silkscreen process, featuring metallic shimmer layers alongside gloss and matte varnishes, faithfully embodying the radiance of the original multi-media artwork.

At Mickalene's studio

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Mickalene Thomas

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Mickalene Thomas set out to change the face of art history, and that's exactly what she did. In her loud but tender multimedia portraits, Black femme power, beauty and desire take centre stage. Whether it's the artist herself, her mother, a lover, a friend or a public figure like Michelle Obama, each woman tells her own story. In Thomas' words: "The gaze of my work is unapologetically a Black woman's gaze loving other Black women."¹ This deep sense of adoration and respect comes through in all of her art – not just her portraits but her interiors and photography too. The bright Pop Art-esque blend of photography, collage, paint and craft shop materials like rhinestones has a celebratory feel designed to uplift and empower the next generation. "For me, it's all about trying to inspire and make young girls, when they walk into a space like [a museum], feel a sense of themselves. They see that they're represented."

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