Palo Gallery (New York) is delighted to announce its debut participation in
ZSONAMACO 2025 as part of their curated Sur sector, presenting a solo booth of new paintings and works on paper by Lewinale Havette. Havette’s practice focuses on the intricacies of feminine identity in relation to the complexities of growing up as a young girl in Liberia migrating through West Africa with her
family. Her work incorporates themes of religion, sensuality, and displacement.
Through her paintings and drawings, Havette unravels oppressive structures of her past and also those of the women in her community. Havette aims to transcend the limits of expectation to rejoice in the full power, meaning, and sensuality of femininity. Havette’s style of figurative expression borders on the abstract through which washes, drips and gestural marks blend and clash into dynamic and energetic feminine figures. She wields her preferred medium of
ink with tactful intelligence both embracing the chaos of the material and taming it with surgical precision. Following Havette’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery in September of 2024, Palo Gallery’s booth presentation will include new paintings and both large and domestically scaled works on paper.
ZSONAMACO 2025 as part of their curated Sur sector, presenting a solo booth of new paintings and works on paper by Lewinale Havette. Havette’s practice focuses on the intricacies of feminine identity in relation to the complexities of growing up as a young girl in Liberia migrating through West Africa with her
family. Her work incorporates themes of religion, sensuality, and displacement.
Through her paintings and drawings, Havette unravels oppressive structures of her past and also those of the women in her community. Havette aims to transcend the limits of expectation to rejoice in the full power, meaning, and sensuality of femininity. Havette’s style of figurative expression borders on the abstract through which washes, drips and gestural marks blend and clash into dynamic and energetic feminine figures. She wields her preferred medium of
ink with tactful intelligence both embracing the chaos of the material and taming it with surgical precision. Following Havette’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery in September of 2024, Palo Gallery’s booth presentation will include new paintings and both large and domestically scaled works on paper.
