Mavis Pusey: Restless

Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College Los Angeles · Greater LA

Exhibition on view: Aug 22, 2026 - Jan 3, 2027

Mavis Pusey’s Restless surveys the Jamaican-born painter, printmaker and designer, including about 100 never-before-seen works from Ian White’s collection. Shaped by years in New York, London and Paris, Pusey developed a geometric abstraction of syncopated lines and layered color, and the show traces the motifs she returned to again and again.

Mavis Pusey

Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) was a Jamaican-born artist and an important figure in geometric abstraction. Drawing on her education in fashion design and her work in the fashion industry, she developed a clean, graphic hard-edge style across paintings, prints and works on paper shaped by architecture and the cities where she lived. Her archive is in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mavis Pusey archive

Artworks in this exhibition

Mavis Pusey, "Restless"