Liz Andrews’s 5 Favorite Works from Frieze New York Viewing Room 2023

Liz Andrews, Frieze, May 10, 2023

The Executive Director of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art selects powerful paintings, sculpture and prints by Jack Whitten, June Clark and Mary Lovelace O'Neal, amongst others .

 

MARY LOVELACE O'NEAL
TID - Flowers and Still Life, Who Expected It, circa 1990s

Mixed media on canvas
213.4 cm x 152.4 cm
Presented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery

 

 

This painting is simultaneously abstract and representative in a way only Mary Lovelace O’Neal could achieve. In this 'still life,' I see both an ode to and challenge of art history.