Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
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Author: Mavis Pusey
Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) developed her clean, graphic style of hard-edge abstraction from her education in fashion design and her time spent working in the fashion industry. Her paintings and prints abound with architectural shapes and patterns. Mobile Images is the first major catalog dedicated to Pusey’s long-overlooked practice. It brings together newly commissioned scholarship by Hallie Ringle, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Cecilia González Godino and Kiki Teshome, each addressing a different aspect of Pusey’s practice—from her transnational biography and commitment to abstraction, to her engagement with architecture, sound and Black feminist artistic lineages. Illustrated with paintings, prints, works on paper, archival materials and installation photography, Mobile Images serves as both an authoritative reference and a visual record of Pusey’s work.Pusey was born in Jamaica, lived most of her adult life in New York City, with stops in London and Philadelphia, working as a seamstress and pattern maker, studying intermittently at the Art Students League when she could afford classes. She ended her career in Orange, VA.
ISBN 9798994821008. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania/The Studio Museum in Harlem. hb. 200 pages. 8.25 x 10.5 in.
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Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) developed her clean, graphic style of hard-edge abstraction from her education in fashion design and her time spent working in the fashion industry. Her paintings and prints abound with architectural shapes and patterns. Mobile Images is the first major catalog dedicated to Pusey’s long-overlooked practice. It brings together newly commissioned scholarship by Hallie Ringle, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Cecilia González Godino and Kiki Teshome, each addressing a different aspect of Pusey’s practice—from her transnational biography and commitment to abstraction, to her engagement with architecture, sound and Black feminist artistic lineages. Illustrated with paintings, prints, works on paper, archival materials and installation photography, Mobile Images serves as both an authoritative reference and a visual record of Pusey’s work.Pusey was born in Jamaica, lived most of her adult life in New York City, with stops in London and Philadelphia, working as a seamstress and pattern maker, studying intermittently at the Art Students League when she could afford classes. She ended her career in Orange, VA.
ISBN 9798994821008. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania/The Studio Museum in Harlem. hb. 200 pages. 8.25 x 10.5 in.
not yet published