“A Little Taste Outside Of Love”

By Mickalene Thomas

Published by Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, in consortium with Benefit Print Project on the occasion of the pioneering artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery, this project is exemplary of Mickalene Thomas’s most iconic work. The dazzling project is cut and assembled by hand, and comprises multiple techniques and processes, such as two-and-a-half- and three-dimensional printing and hand-stenciling. Brilliant rhinestones, hand-applied acrylic pearls, metallic card stock, sparkly glitter papers, and collaged pearlescent and holographic card stock make up the luxurious surface, which recontextualizes canonical nineteenth-century paintings by French artists Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Édouard Manet and is based on a painting of the same name that features prominently in the exhibition.

Date: 2025
Size: 27 x 35.876 inches
Medium: UV pigment print with gloss on satin mounted on 4-ply museum board, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Velour with rhinestones (6 colors), hand-applied acrylic pearls, 2.5D UV elevation print with gloss, enamel and acrylic painted 3D prints, metallic card stock with UV pigment print and spray-pochoired glitter, glitter paper with UV pigment print, and collaged pearlescent and holographic card stock
Edition size: 30
Publisher: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, in consortium with Benefit Print Project
Produced by: Ribuoli Digital
Rendering by: Ribuoli Digital
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