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Catalogue to coincide with the exhibition "Mary Lovelace O'Neal: Chasing Down the Image" at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, from February 6 - March 14, 2020.
" ... Since the late 1960s, Mary Lovelace O'Neal has been known for her singular paintings that pair bold, monumental scale with layers of unexpected materials to explore both deeply personal narratives and mythologies as well as broader themes of racism and social justice and contemporary critical debates. With roots in both Minimalist and Expressionist painting, her imagery has, over years and series, fluctuated between pure abstraction, narrative figuration, and the evocative spaces in between ..."--Gallery website mnuchingallery.com accessed 30.07.2021
INTRODUCTORY.—NUMBER ONE. I would that it were possible so to tell a story that a reader should beforehand know every detail of it up to a certain point, or be so circumstanced that he might be supposed to know. In telling the little novelettes of our life, we commence our narrations with the presumption that these details are borne in mind, and though they be all forgotten, the stories come out intelligible at last. "You remember Mary Walker. Oh yes, you do;—that pretty girl, but such a queer temper! And how she was engaged to marry Harry Jones, and said she wouldn't at the church-door, till her father threatened her with bread and water; and how they have been living ever since as happ...
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This softback notebook set is beautifully illustrated with handwriting samples from three famous writers. Drawn from the manuscript collections at the Bodleian Library, this delightful softback notebook set features the distinctive handwriting of three remarkable women writers and thinkers: Jane Austen, Ada Lovelace, and Mary Shelley. The Bodleian Library holds part of the manuscript of Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons, as well as the original notebooks in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and the personal correspondence of mathematical pioneer Ada Lovelace. Inspirational and unusual, these useful literary notebooks make the ideal gift for writers and book-lovers alike.
A look at the work, influence, and legacy of the legendary artist and educator Examining the essential and influential art of Mary Lovelace O'Neal, this survey of work spanning the last 30 years celebrates the legacy of a teacher, mentor, and heroine for many. As professor emerita of the University of California-Berkeley's Art Studio Department--a first for an African American woman at the time--Lovelace O'Neal has become renowned as an important educator and painter of activist abstractions that have inspired countless artists in the Bay Area, nationally, and globally. Constantly experimenting with form, color, and figuration to engage in cultural and artistic conversations on behalf of social justice, Mary Lovelace O'Neal presents an oeuvre that continuously subverts the expectations imposed on black artists, as well as defines the cultural power of minimalism and abstract expressionism.