"Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, ‘Not really.'"Ben Brown Palm Beach
November 25, 2022January 21, 2023

Ben Brown Fine Arts presented Hank Willis Thomas’s "Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, ‘Not really.'" This was the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with Ben Brown Fine Arts and first exhibition at the Palm Beach gallery. The exhibition brought together a selection of recent works by the artist from his most celebrated series, including sports jersey textile works, lenticular text works, retroreflective prints, and a neon. Hank Willis Thomas is a multi-disciplinary, conceptual artist whose work explores notions of identity, race, politics, popular culture, sports, and history. His practice emanates from a bright vision of promise for the future, attained by both examining the past and creating a fresh visual repository to engage with these conceptions. 

"Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, ‘Not really.'"
"Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, ‘Not really.'"
"Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, ‘Not really.'"