Mary Lovelace O’Neal: HECHO EN MEXICO—a mano
15 March - 4 May 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24 Street

Coinciding with her inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and concurrent solo exhibition at SFMOMA, Mary Lovelace O'Neal (b. 1942 in Jackson, Mississippi; BFA Howard, 1964; MFA Columbia, 1969) will present her first-ever New York solo exhibition of all-new work, on view at Marianne Boesky Gallery from March 15 through May 4.

For the new exhibition, HECHO EN MEXICO—a mano (“MADE IN MEXICO—by hand”), the octogenarian presents an entirely new body of work that was made in the past three years in her Merida, Mexico studio. Monumental in scale, the largest paintings on view will be twenty-foot-wide quadriptychs.

A unique and dynamic force in American art since the 1960s, Lovelace O’Neal has developed a singular visual vocabulary that is at once acutely personal and profoundly political. Drawing on a broad range of influences—from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism—Lovelace O’Neal parses themes of race and gender while remaining immersed in conceptual investigations of joy, exuberance, nature, and the sublime. At times, the rich, sensuous gestures in the new works hearken back to her Whales Fucking works of the late 1970s and early 1980s, while hints of architectural details evoke the Panthers in My Fathers Palace works of the 1990s. Read more in the press release linked here.

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download web-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of Mary Lovelace O’Neal: HECHO EN MEXICO—a mano with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”