Two galleries on opposite American coasts will stage the first joint exhibition of Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and the Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña. Lehmann Maupin in New York and Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco are organizing the two-part presentation, which opens in Manhattan on November 19 and travels west in January. The two venues will each mount their own selection of works sized to their spaces, with some pieces appearing in both cities. Dealer Wendi Norris first floated the pairing to Lehmann Maupin co-founder Rachel Lehmann several years ago. The plan took shape after Lehmann visited Vicuña's solo show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, a retrospective co-organized with London's Whitechapel Gallery, where the second version opened last week. Carrington, the British-Mexican Surrealist who died in 2011, and Vicuña, the Chilean-born artist known for fragile textile assemblages and performance, come from different generations and continents. What unites them, the organizers suggest, is a myth-driven visual language rooted in transformation, ecology and the feminine. Both artists have had major institutional moments recently: Vicuña's museum retrospectives have circulated internationally, while Carrington's market has soared — her 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert set an artist record of $28.5 million at Sotheby's. For Gallery Wendi Norris, which has championed Carrington's legacy for nearly two decades through exhibitions, catalogues and museum placements, the show extends a long program of scholarly presentations. For Lehmann Maupin, which represents Vicuña, it offers a new historical frame for a living artist at a moment of peak institutional recognition.