Artist Antonia Showering is making her long-awaited New York solo debut with the exhibition “In Line” at Timothy Taylor in Tribeca, on view from May 8 to June 21, 2025. The show follows her London solo debut “Mixed Emotion” with the same gallery in 2022. Showering, known for dreamy, richly colored figurative oil paintings that blend abstraction and figuration, has seen her works command high prices at auction, including a 2017 painting that sold for nearly $300,000 at Phillips London. She discusses the deeply personal nature of the new work, which reflects major life changes including moving to rural Somerset, becoming a mother, and losing both grandmothers.
This debut matters because Showering represents a rising generation of figurative painters who have attracted intense collector demand and auction market attention, yet she has chosen to step back from the spotlight to develop a more introspective practice. The exhibition highlights how personal experience—including references to her grandmother's Swiss homeland and her Chinese grandfather—informs her intuitive, sketch-free painting process. Her success also underscores the continued strength of the market for emerging figurative artists, even as she prioritizes artistic solitude and emotional depth over commercial frenzy.