Shadows in the Fog

 

Mavis Iona Pusey

  1928 - 2019 (biography)

1964  

color lithograph 

12 1/2 x 14 1/8"  

pencil, lower right 

8 of 12  

titled, lower center, dated, lower right 

 

cream wove paper 

published 

artist 

14281 

SOLD

Born in Jamaica in 1928 Mavis Pusey studied at the Art Students League in New York. Originally intending to study fashion design she changed her interest to Fine Arts where she studied printmaking with Will Barnett. It was at the ASL she did these abstract geometric lithographs. Pusey wrote about her work: "My work consists of geometric forms in a variety of rhythmical configurations. These forms are based on buildings around the Manhattan area. I am inspired by the energy and the beat of the construction and demolition of these buildings—the tempo and movement mold into a synthesis and, for me, become another aesthetic of abstraction. I use color and texture to convey the tension that is the heartbeat of the city. I see the new construction as a rebirth, a catalyst for a new environment, and since the past must be a link to the future, in each of my works…. there is a circle to depict the never-ending continuation of natural order and all matter." See our biography for more information about Mavis Pusey.