Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images

Within Manhattan (1977) is 73 by 96 inches of scaffolding, ladders and skeletal buildings in red, white and blue, and it was the largest work when this show opened in Philadelphia last year. Pusey photographed trucks, storefronts and building materials on city walks, then rebuilt them as geometric paintings.

The Hammer presents more than 60 works from her 50-year career, in oil, ink, graphite, lithograph and screenprint. Philadelphia hung the show in three themes, the body, construction and music. Here the curator Jessi DiTillio has rearranged it into chronological chapters, so you follow Pusey from New York to London and Paris and back again. It is the first major museum survey of her work.

Hallie Ringle, who curated the original show, reads many of the paintings as "pattern pieces, deconstructed garments, laid onto a table", where "the hint of an elbow, knee or thigh remains". Pusey learned to sew and came to New York to study fashion design. Entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm.