My work explores how history lives in the female body through oil paint, wood, and stone.
I center the female body as a site of origin, transformation, and authority. I draw from memory, spirituality, and lived experience to trace how identity is shaped by inheritance, migration, and belief. My paintings move between the material and the unseen, where ancestral presences and symbolic forms carry meaning.
The wood is West African and ritual in origin, the stone European. I build 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.
