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.

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.

ICA Philadelphia 
Published with The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.5 inches
200 pages
ISBN  9798994821008