Juanita McNeely’s Multi-Panel Paintings Channel Harrowing Medical Traumas

Juanita McNeely’s exhibition, her first at James Fuentes, comprised two large multi-panel paintings that transmit the pain of their female subjects with an intensity that is almost too much to bear and a painterly confidence that makes it hard to look away. McNeely, now eighty-four, has been a practicing painter since she was a teenager. Her 1967 arrival in New York from the Midwest coincided with the growth of second-wave feminism, and she actively participated in groups like Women Artist