Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce MUTATIONS IN BLUE, WHITE AND RED, an exhibition of recent paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Mandy El-Sayegh that marks the London-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S. The gallery will host an opening reception for El-Sayegh on Thursday, November 8, from 6 to 8 PM.

MUTATIONS IN BLUE, WHITE AND RED brings together examples from different series of works by El-Sayegh, which together form an artistic practice rooted in assemblage and the political, social, and economic complexities of humanity. Featured in the exhibition are a number of mixed-media paintings from El-Sayegh’s Net-Grid series, along with examples of her Windows series, which is comprised of intricate blue ink drawings executed on large-scale canvases. Also on view is a selection of the artist’s table works, vitrine-like sculptures containing small latex objects, images, and found ephemera, as well as works from her Piece Paintings series, which are exhibited here for the first time. El-Sayegh has also created an installation where she has applied layers of The Financial Times to the walls and floor of one of the galleries, offering a different surface for the work. The Financial Times, chosen both for its signification of global finance and the flesh-pink tone of its pages, reflects El-Sayegh’s interest in the complex interactions (and often confrontations) between the body and the political landscape.