A stage actress with the Parisian Comedie-Francaise; a Dadaist and New York bohemian who edited "The Blind Man" with Marcel Duchamp; a devoted follower of spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti at Ojai; and a model for the character Rose in "Titanic" throughout her many incarnations, Beatrice Wood (1893-[...]
Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) has won acclaim for her elaborate, colorful paintings of African-American women, often posed provocatively against rich, 1970s-themed backgrounds adorned with rhinestones, enamel and acrylics. Thomas draws from earlier traditions of portraiture to arrive at her contempor[...]