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Lehmann Maupin will now represent 28-year-old, New York–based artist Anna Park, it announced today. The gallery will co-represent Park, now the youngest artist on its roster, alongside BLUM. The Korean American artist is set to present her first solo exhibition with the gallery in London in 2026, marking her solo debut in the United Kingdom.

Park is known for large-scale satirical charcoal and ink drawings that often critique the cultural commodification of women. These black-and-white works explore themes of identity and sexuality, and range from images borrowed from advertising and film to more abstract, gestural compositions.

“Anna’s work examines our contemporary experience through a feminist lens, using her large-scale charcoal and ink drawings to look at the societal pressures imposed on women in the media,” David Maupin, co-founder of Lehmann Maupin, told Artsy. “As a gallery, we’re committed to championing artists who challenge traditional perspectives, including pioneering women artists like Anna who now make up over fifty percent of our program.”

Born in 1996 in Daegu, South Korea, Park immigrated to the United States with her family at a young age. She spent her childhood in Salt Lake City, where she learned to draw in after-school programs. After studying illustration and animation at the Pratt Institute, where she earned her BA in 2017, she pursued an MFA from the New York Academy of Fine Art, graduating in 2020. In the years since, Park has been the subject of solo shows at Half Gallery in New York, BLUM in Tokyo, and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, titled “Look, look. Anna Park,” which closed in September 2024.

Park’s work is in the collections of prestigious institutions worldwide, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.

Lehmann Maupin’s announcement comes after several other blue-chip galleries have added young artists to their roster in recent months. In September 2024, 27-year-old artists Sasha Gordon and Li Hei Di became the youngest artists on David Zwirner and Pace’s rosters, respectively.

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Billy Showell is a watercolour artist and founder of the Billy Showell School of Botanical Art, which she established to share her knowledge and love for botanical watercolour painting. Billy visited the Jackson’s Studio to share the story of how she started working with watercolour, and why she wanted to teach others what she has learned along the way.   Artist Insights: Billy Showell     Contents 0:00 “I am just one of many that are just trying to bring the natural world into focus” 0:25 Introduction 0:48 “I was always that sort of quiet child that was sitting in the corner drawing and painting” 1:53 “Once I got to art school and I found my people” 2:24 “I should be living and breathing fashion” 3:15 “A formative time in my life” 4:37 “Well if you can paint those beautiful flowers on furniture, why don’t you paint it onto canvas” 5:55 “I’d found a little niche that suited me” 6:29 “You don’t see petals are fused at the base and burst open” 7:52 “My career as a Botanical illustrator is different to my career as a Botanical artist” 8:39 “I think as long as Botanical art has its feet in …

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Artist Andrea Pascual creates between expression and abstraction, taking inspiration from humanity’s fragility and nature’s beauty.

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