Presenting nineteen new paintings by Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
Mary Lovelace O’Neal: The Mexico Works

Publication design, art direction, typography

Client: Marianne Boesky Gallery

2024

In these monumental canvases—all made over the past three years in the artist’s Mérida, Mexico studio—Lovelace O’Neal mines the visual language she has developed over her six-decade career. In this newest body of work, fantastical figures and hints of architecture spring forth from richly textured black surfaces. 

Working exclusively on 7 x 5 foot canvases, the artist creates diptychs, triptychs, and quadriptychs. The book’s format mirrors these proportions, with every work reproduced as immersive full-bleed spreads throughout. Within these expansive paintings, planes of action melt into one another, slipping backward and forward as narratives appear momentarily before receding again into the depth of vast, black surfaces.

72-page catalogue with text by Jan Avgikos; Hardcover, 8.625 × 12"; Typeface: Signifier (Klim)