# @21chotels on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CasJ8Z4NOZ6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17440052-21chotels-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/2b45e8e535.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-03-04T17:15:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 21c Museum Hotels (@21cHotels) — https://gondola.cc/21cHotels

## Caption

When Ends Meet #1, 2007 ⁠
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Rhinestones, acrylic, enamel on wood panels ⁠
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Mickalene Thomas’s collage-like paintings often combine traditional artistic media with colorful acrylics and rhinestone embellishments, referencing both pop culture and art history in her explorations of celebrity and power. By utilizing art-historical styles in her works, Thomas inserts her contemporary subjects into the canon of key historic figures and into art history: When Ends Meet #1 depicts media mega-star Oprah Winfrey and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a manner similar to Warhol’s portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, asserting the status of these 21st-century women. Thomas sourced the images from TV, at once capturing a range of expressions, and yet alluding to how the media controls representation, often denying the complexity of identity for celebrities who must exchange privacy for fame. ⁠
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#21cPopStars⁠
#WomensHistoryMonth⁠
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#21cMuseum⁠
mickalenethomas

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21cmuseum, 1, womenshistorymonth, 21cpopstars

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