Love Letter
West African wood, Italian translucent alabaster, iron, earth, acrylic pigment
14 × 22½ × 29 in / 140 lbs
Palo Gallery, on view through June 6
21 East 3rd Street, NYC
📷 @seleen.saleh
Palo Gallery is pleased to present ‘I Love It When You Beg’, the second solo exhibition by Liberian painter Lewinale Havette at the gallery. Featuring a body of work across painting, work on paper, and sculpture, the exhibition uses the female body as its gravitational center. Havette offers a visceral exploration of how history and devotion shape presence, and how memory is held and transmitted across generations.
“In my practice, the female body remains a living archive where power, transcendence, rupture, love, death, war, and sex meet. In ‘I Love It When You Beg’, I explore how the body absorbs and carries histories of domination and devotion, existing as both sovereign and violated, fractured yet whole,” says Lewinale Havette.
Join us for a celebratory reception with the artist on Friday, May 1, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Palo Gallery, located at 21 East 3rd Street, New York City.
‘I Love It When You Beg’, my solo exhibition opens May 1 at 6 PM at @palogallery .
On view through June 13
Pictured :
‘Cotton Candy Lesbians’
60 x 72 in
Oil on canvas
Lewinale Havette
Massacre, 2026
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in.
60.96 x 91.44 cm
LH0190
‘I Love It When You Beg’ is currently on view until 13 June at 21 East 3rd St.
Sunshowers.
West African ritual wood, Roman travertine, iron, earth. 130 pounds of something I didn’t plan and can’t fully explain.
Les mains savent avant l’esprit. The hands know before the mind does.
@palogallery , through June 13
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Lewinale Havette, “Sunshowers,” 2026. West African ritual wood, Roman travertine, iron, earth, acrylic pigment. 14 × 15 × 39½ in. 📷 @seleen.saleh
