My work centers the female body as a site of origin, transformation, and authority. I draw from memory, spirituality, and lived experience to trace how history lives in the body and how identity is shaped by inheritance, migration, and belief. My paintings move between the material and the unseen, where ancestral memory and symbolic forms carry meaning.
I work with oil paint alongside wood, iron, and stone, building layered surfaces that hold both physical weight and spiritual presence. Through restraint and accumulation, I return to cycles of life and death, love and war, creation and ruin.
Lewinale Havette.
Lewinale Havette lives in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Wehrmühle Museum, the Masur Museum of Art, Christie's London, Art Cologne, Zona Maco, Untitled Art Miami, and the Aspen Art Fair. She is represented by Palo Gallery, New York.
