Mavis Pusey was born in Retreat, Jamaica, in 1928. She grew up parentless and learned how to sew and make clothing by the time she was nine. When she was 18, she moved to New York City to pursue a design degree at the Traphagen School of Fashion. Pusey didn’t graduate but went on to have a rich 50-year career as an artist whose focus was geometric abstraction. She was inspired by construction and the transformation of urban landscapes. “Mobile Images,” the first large-scale museum exhibition devoted to Pusey—she died in 2019—features over 60 of her paintings and works on paper. —Henry McGrath