Jenkins Johnson Gallery is excited to announce our participation in the 2023 edition of Frieze New York taking place at The Shed, Booth B19. Public viewing days for the fair will be May 19th through the 21st, with Private viewing days on May 17th and 18th. We will be presenting a solo exhibition of works by Mary Lovelace O'Neal.
Throughout her career, Mary Lovelace O’Neal has blazed a trail for Black female abstract painters, struggling for inclusion and re-defining a movement, insisting on an aesthetic integration of experiences once defined as exclusive to the white male painters. Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, Mary holds a BFA from Howard University, attended a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and graduated as the only African American student in Columbia’s MFA program in 1969. Her work is in collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, DeYoung Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile, and the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. She is the 2022 recipient of the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award Excellence in Visual Art, Lifetime Recognition Award by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Anonymous was a Woman Award. Mary Lovelace O’Neal continues to live and work, splitting her time between Oakland California and Merida, Mexico.
