Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Author of Uncategorizable Abstractions, Dies at 84

Activist, educator and artist Mary Lovelace O’Neal, whose monumental, richly hued lampblack paintings expanded abstraction’s possibilities, died on May 10 in Mérida, Mexico. She was eighty-four. Despite a fruitful career spanning six decades, Lovelace O’Neal was known primarily as an “artist’s artist” until recent years, when she began to achieve international acclaim. Informed by flatness, […]