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Frames series

Hi Maddiebossidy, you've added a paragraph long section about Thomas's work without describing what, where, when it is! You've also only provided one source – a 2003 magazine article. Right now I'm thinking the whole section should probably be deleted, as it doesn't warrant much or any space – especially in the scope of the artist's career. Hesperian Nguyen (talk)

Frames series

Hank Willis Thomas’s Frames series takes on violence and black subjectivity. This work was completed with a large amount of collaborators, allowing for various insights and merging of modes of critiques. These sixteen images give a unique look into blackness, allowing their ‘off frame’ characteristics to help give meaning to the depicted. Thomas uses framing and background details to create identity and rhetoric, telling of social issues within the black community. This series promotes Thomas’s intentions of “aesthetic as performance” and the “problematic status of the photograph as document”; each photo within the series works as both individual piece, using mise-en-abyme technique to contribute to “the stylistic inconsistency of the series as a whole.” ^[1]

Moving this section here in response to my above comment. Really this contribution is just a single source with critical praise/references for a something that is impossible to understand what/where/when it was. It's not an encyclopedic entry in other words. Hesperian Nguyen (talk)

References

^ Copeland, Huey (2003). "Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas'FramesSeries". Qui Parle. 13 (2): 137–142. doi:10.1215/quiparle.13.2.137. ISSN 1041-8385.

Unity

To add: Unity (Thomas) ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:17, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Embrace

To add: The Embrace ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:12, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox image

From my tablet, I see the infobox image for Thomas shows a sculpture on the main page, but when I click on it, his face is shown like a standard infobox photo.

Is this intentional? GoutComplex (talk) 03:19, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Non-MOS exhib. list

For posterity, here's the list of exhibitions removed from the article, per MOS:VisArts/Exhibitions.

Selected exhibitions

Solo / two-person

2024

Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Washington.^[1]

2023

I've Known Rivers, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, California.^[2]

2022

Everybody Used to Say, Oh, I Got It All Form Matisse, And I Said, 'Not Really.', Ben Brown Fine Arts, Palm Beach.^[3]
Everything We See Hides Another Thing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.^[4]
The New Black Aesthetic, Cleveland, Ohio.^[5]

2021

All Power to All People, Englewood Village Plaza, Kindred Arts, Chicago.^[6]
The Gun Violence Memorial Project, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.^[7]

2020

All Things But Equal..., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas ^[8]
Fourth Bluff, Fourth Bluff Park, Tri-Star Arts, Memphis, Tennessee^[9]
2020: Action, Freedom, Patriotism, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida^[10]
An All Colored Cast, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, California^[11]

2019

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal..., Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon^[12]
Exodusters, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York^[13]
Unbranded, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama^[14]

2018

Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Branded/Unbranded, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

2017

Flying Geese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Freedom Isn't Always Beautiful and Blind Memory, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015, York College Galleries, York, Pennsylvania
Hank Willis Thomas: Black Righteous Space, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California

2016

Evidence of Things Not Seen, Kadist, San Francisco, California
Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

2015

The Truth is I See You, PublicArtFund, Metrotech, Brooklyn, New York
In The Box: Hank Willis Thomas, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

2014

History Doesn't Laugh, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Question Bridge: Black Males, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, Illinois

2013

Hank Willis Thomas, The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio
Wayfarer, Picture Windows Series, International Center of Photography, New York, New York

2012

Hank Willis Thomas: Believe It, SCAD Galleries, La Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste

2011

Strange Fruit, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2010

All Things Being Equal..., Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2009

Hank Willis Thomas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Light Text, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas
Digging Deeper, in collaboration with Willie Cole, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
About Time , Galway – 126 Artist-run Gallery, Galway, Ireland ^[15]
Black is Beautiful, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Pitch Blackness, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York

2008

Winter In America, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California

2005

Bearing Witness, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19h00s (talk) 12:54, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES - From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation - Henry Art Gallery". henryart.org. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
^ https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-ive-known-rivers/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.benbrownfinearts.com/artists/165-hank-willis-thomas/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ hankwillisthomas.com https://hankwillisthomas.com/exhibitions/the-new-black-aesthetic. Retrieved 2024-09-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://monumentlab.com/projects/hank-willis-thomas-all-power-to-all-people. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.gunviolencememorialproject.org. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/hankwillisthomas. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://projects.tristararts.org/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-fourth-bluff. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/hank-willis-thomas/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.kaynegriffin.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas/press-release. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…". Portland Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
^ https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/exhibitions/gordon-parks-foundation-gallery/exodusters-hank-willis-thomas. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2018/hank-willis-thomas-unbranded.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Editor (2009-12-31). "Shower of Kunst: The State of It". Shower of Kunst. Retrieved 2020-01-05. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[1] Copeland, Huey (2003). "Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas'FramesSeries". Qui Parle. 13 (2): 137–142. doi:10.1215/quiparle.13.2.137. ISSN 1041-8385.

[2] "Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES - From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation - Henry Art Gallery". henryart.org. Retrieved 2024-09-06.

[3] ttps://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-ive-known-rivers/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[4] ttps://www.benbrownfinearts.com/artists/165-hank-willis-thomas/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[5] ttps://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[6] hankwillisthomas.com https://hankwillisthomas.com/exhibitions/the-new-black-aesthetic. Retrieved 2024-09-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[7] ttps://monumentlab.com/projects/hank-willis-thomas-all-power-to-all-people. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[8] ttps://www.gunviolencememorialproject.org. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[9] ttps://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/hankwillisthomas. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[10] ttps://projects.tristararts.org/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas-fourth-bluff. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[11] ttps://www.pacegallery.com/artists/hank-willis-thomas/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[12] ttps://www.kaynegriffin.com/exhibitions/hank-willis-thomas/press-release. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[13] "Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…". Portland Art Museum. Retrieved 2019-11-26.

[14] ttps://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/exhibitions/gordon-parks-foundation-gallery/exodusters-hank-willis-thomas. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[15] ttps://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2018/hank-willis-thomas-unbranded.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[16] Editor (2009-12-31). "Shower of Kunst: The State of It". Shower of Kunst. Retrieved 2020-01-05. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

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