INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
“[Pusey] was a builder and a breaker, a composer of surfaces that vibrate. Her abstractions are alive with feeling, frequency, and vision.” —Chenoa Baker, the Brooklyn Rail
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 148 color / 11 bw. | 9/15/2026 | Awaiting stock $45.00
Published by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Foreword by Thelma Golden, Johanna Burton. Text by Hallie Ringle, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Cecilia González Godino, Kiki Teshome. Roundtable with Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, sonia louise davis, Tomashi Jackson, Kiel Adrian Scott, Kiki Teshome.
Published with The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) developed her clean, graphic style of hard-edge abstraction from her education in fashion design and her time spent working in the fashion industry. Her paintings and prints abound with architectural shapes and patterns. Mobile Images is the first major catalog dedicated to Pusey’s long-overlooked practice. It brings together newly commissioned scholarship by Hallie Ringle, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Cecilia González Godino and Kiki Teshome, each addressing a different aspect of Pusey’s practice—from her transnational biography and commitment to abstraction, to her engagement with architecture, sound and Black feminist artistic lineages. Illustrated with paintings, prints, works on paper, archival materials and installation photography, Mobile Images serves as both an authoritative reference and a visual record of Pusey’s work.
