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No. 30: Mickalene Thomas and Marco Breuer

Episode No. 30 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Mickalene Thomas and Marco Breuer.

An exhibition of Thomas’s recent paintings, “Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,” is on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art through August 19.

Thomas has exhibited in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Her work is in the collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

This week’s second guest is New York-based photographer Marco Breuer, whose latest work is on view now at Chelsea’s Von Lintel Gallery. Breuer’s manipulations of photographic paper create fantastic, often surprising abstractions.

His most recent museum exhibition was last year’s “Marco Breuer: Line of Sight,” which was organized by Julian Cox at the de Young in San Francisco.His work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, MoMA, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Harvard Art Museums and SFMOMA.

Air date: May 31, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Origin of the Universe 1, 2012

Mickalene Thomas, Origin of the Universe 1, 2012

Mickalene Thomas, Landscape with Tree, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Landscape with Tree, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Qusuquzah, Une Très Belle Négresse #3, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Qusuquzah, Une Très Belle Négresse #3, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Two Chairs and Fireplace, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Two Chairs and Fireplace, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Striped Foyer, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Striped Foyer, 2012.

Marco Breuer, Untitled, 2012.

Marco Breuer, Untitled, 2012.

Marco Breuer, Untitled, 2012.

Marco Breuer, Untitled, 2012.

Air date: May 31, 2012.

Mickalene Thomas, Din, Une Très Belle Négresse #2, 2012

Mickalene Thomas, Din, Une Très Belle Négresse #2, 2012

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Blue Couch with Green Owl, 2012

Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Blue Couch with Green Owl, 2012

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