Mary Lovelace O’Neal, TID- Flowers and Still Life, Who Expected It, circa 1990s, mixed media on canvas, 84 x 60 in, signed verso, courtesy the Artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Mary Lovelace O’Neal, a force in art since the mid 1970s, is renowned for fusing the painterly and gestural elements of Abstract Expressionism with the social consciousness of the Black Arts Movement. The artist’s paintings have progressed through many different phases over her long career, beginning with loose abstracted forms, evolving to including more precise patterns, stenciling, and geometric shapes (Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, Main).
