The Hammer Museum will open the most comprehensive West Coast survey to date of Mavis Pusey, an artist whose reputation has been rebuilt almost from scratch in recent years. 'Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images' opens on 11 October 2026 in Los Angeles, gathering more than 60 oil paintings, etchings, silkscreens and drawings that trace a career lived across New York, London and Paris. Pusey, who was born in Jamaica in 1928 and died in 2019, spent decades working between the world's art capitals without receiving the sustained institutional attention her output warranted. Her work appeared in a UCLA exhibition as early as 1966, but it was only after curator Hallie Ringle tracked her down in rural Virginia in 2018 that her papers and archive were recovered, setting off the reassessment now reaching the Hammer. The survey first opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2025. For Los Angeles, curators have reworked the presentation, rearranging the Philadelphia show's thematic sections into chronological chapters so visitors can follow Pusey's development in sequence. The shift gives the West Coast iteration its own character and positions the Hammer show as a historical bookend to that long-ago 1966 UCLA appearance, closing a sixty-year loop. The exhibition continues a wider museum trend of archival recovery projects that return overlooked twentieth-century artists to public view. For local audiences it offers the first chance to see the full scope of Pusey's practice in one place, from the geometric abstractions of her New York years to the works made during her time in London and Paris.