Alma Thomas “Moving Heaven & Earth: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1958-1978”
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Alma Thomas: Moving Heaven & Earth, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1958-1978, an exhibition of over forty exuberant paintings, drawings, and watercolors. This exhibition will be the gallery’s second show dedicated exclusively to Thomas’s work. The first, Alma Thomas: Phantasmagoria, Major Paintings from the 1970s (2001), traveled to the Women’s Museum in Dallas, Texas. The current exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated color catalogue featuring a newly transcribed and previously unpublished oral history interview with the artist.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has long been a champion of Alma Thomas’s work. In addition to the 2001 solo exhibition, the gallery has featured her work in several major group exhibitions, including Stroke! Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis, Alma Thomas (2005), African American Art: 200 Years (2008), Abstract Expressionism: Reloading the Canon (2011), and Beyond the Spectrum, Abstraction in African American Art, 1950-1975 (2014). The gallery has also successfully placed her paintings in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas as well as many private collections.
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Schedule
from March 20, 2015 to May 16, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-19 from 18:00 to 20:00