APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Richard Hart

  Apogee Issue 05 launches TOMORROW, May 28th. Here is our 6th exclusive preview, from the brilliant Richard Hart.     Craving Miracles, 2012 Oil on panel 22.5 x 37 inches   RICHARD HART began exhibiting as a visual artist in 2009 after working for many years as a graphic designer and illustrator. Although his practice encompasses a diverse array of disciplines Hart thinks of painting as being at the core of his activities. His work is rooted in the experience of an outsider who has lived his life in Africa, and concerns itself with the spiritual landscape of Africa. It takes its cues from ritual, witchcraft and muti, as well as religious movements such as Shembe and the Zionist movement, weaving together factual and fictive narratives to speculate on an Africa that might be. Hart’s work has been exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Cape Town and Durban.

APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Mickalene Thomas

  Apogee Issue 05 launches in 3 days! Here is our 5th exclusive preview: ‘A Little Taste Outside of Love’ by the talented Mickalene Thomas.     A Little Taste Outside of Love, 2007 Rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel 108 x 144 inches 274.3 x 365.8 cm   MICKALENE THOMAS is a distinguished, multidisciplinary visual artist who earned her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute, and MFA at Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally since 2003. Her fist solo museum exhibition was in 2012 at Brooklyn Museum and Santa Monica Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include George Eastman House, New York; L’Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco; First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Columbia; as well as group exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass, Amherst; and La Conservera Contemporary Art Centre, Ceutí, Spain. Thomas’s work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the Seattle Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among...
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