“I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talen...” — Mickalene Thomas Quote

“I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.”

“My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.”