The painter Mary Lovelace O’Neal has returned to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the first time in 45 years. The solo exhibition “New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal” opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 20.

The exhibition showcases new works made from 2021 through 2023 at her studio in Mérida, Mexico. The last time Lovelace O’Neal’s work was the subject of an exhibition at SFMOMA was in 1979, when her paintings were paired with works by the artist George C. Longfish.