Trina Merry's video: 15 Female Painters Every Art Lover Should Know: Mickalene Thomas

Subscribe to my channel =) 15 Female Painters Every Art Lover Should Know: Mickalene Thomas. Mickalene Thomas (1971–Current) Thomas is a New York-based mixed-media artist who explores the relationship between gender, race, art history, and contemporary popular culture. Her style utilizes bold colors, patterns, and textures with unique materials including rhinestones. The rhinestones in particular symbolize femininity and artifice. Her paintings and photographs are primarily portraits and full-body paintings of black women. She subverts the classical female nude in her style to reclaim agency in its depiction of femininity and sexuality. Her work celebrates black beauty and culture, which has been historically overlooked in western art. She is featured in contemporary and modern art museums including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. For more information about Thomas and her work, visit her website. Recommended playlists: 15 Female Artists Every Art Lover Should Know: Suzanne Valadon (Featuring Annag) https://youtu.be/XvELGyga_BA 15 Female Painters You Should know about: Bodypainting into a Frida Kahlo painting https://youtu.be/mcxdf8HaBsE 15 Female Painters You Should know about: Bodypainting into Joan Mitchell https://youtu.be/KTxrrxAfVt0 Bodypaint Challenge: Bringing Monet's Water Lilies to Life https://youtu.be/GoWblfLuGs4 Camouflage bodypainting into Basquiat's "Untitled" https://youtu.be/uRa9fJeLCjs Exhibition | "Objectified" at Untitled Space Gallery https://youtu.be/-QKHVYT7qg8 Bodypaint Challenge: Bringing Warhol’s “Marilyn” Monroe to Life https://youtu.be/ZYVBfUsH5PY Bodypaint Vs Antiquities?! Performance at the Getty Museum https://youtu.be/1mVjCBYLHi4 Awesome Bodypainting for a Studio 54 Party https://youtu.be/km6GK_zm6CU Bodypaint Challenge: Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” https://youtu.be/1Wv1q-0Ne54 Behind the Scenes | Kate Weiser Chocolate x Trina Merry = Living Bonbons (Bodypaint) https://youtu.be/ApewOblWMl0 Bodypaint Challenge: Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” https://youtu.be/Ko43Y1QJ2Sg Bodypaint Challenge: Blending into Frida Kahlo’s Portrait https://youtu.be/PO_by5MVI7A Bringing LIFE into a Rothko masterpiece with bodypaint https://youtu.be/TLFoAwU6AEw Bodypaint Blending Challenge: Basquiat https://youtu.be/x3-tThtlTVI About Trina Merry: IT ALL STARTED… When NYC Bodypainter Trina Merry was struck by lightning in Hollywood, it altered the course of her life. Everything turned white and there was a loud buzzing sound as the lighting filled her car. The most incredible aching sensation shot through her bones. Suffering from continuous a painful ache in her bones whenever she was near power lines or any electrical wires, she escaped to the sheltering forest of Yosemite National Park hoping for a reprieve. She spent a year painting by a little stream where she made friends with the local deer. It was during this time that she had a few glasses of absinthe with Amanda Palmer (the Dresden Dolls, TED Talks). Palmer encouraged Trina to stand onstage and get body painted with the Dolls opening act- an Australian synesthesia art-rock band called “The Red Paintings”. While wearing a silver mask that shot laser beams out into the audience, she experienced complete strangers painting her body with brightly colored space toys. Something sparked: Art had a heartbeat. Art could be vulnerable. Art was… happening. Trina Merry has performed and exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art with Andy Goldsworthy, Attleboro Arts Museum, ESMoA, Museo De Bardini (Florence), Edward Hopper House, Red Dot Miami, Superfine! Art Fair, Satellite Art Show, WORKS San Jose & SOMArts alongside the Guerilla Girls. Her initial exhibition of "Lust of Currency" at the LES arts collective "Con Artist" sold out in only three days. She was a summer resident at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, apprentice to Skin Wars judge Craig Tracy and has a BFA in film. Music Credit Track Name: "Dreams" Music by Dj Quads @ https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads • Official DJ QUads YouTube channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusF... • DJ QUads Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/DjQuads • DJ QUads Spotify HERE: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2VZrd... • DJ QUads Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/djquads • Original upload HERE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5mRT... • Music promoted by NCM: https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ "Jazzy" by Infraction https://bit.ly/2Xba4hj Music promoted by Inaudio: http://bit.ly/3qxoX6U