Anna Park makes her United Kingdom solo debut at Lehmann Maupin London with 'Hot Honey,' an exhibition of large-scale charcoal works running from April 30 to May 30. The show features Park’s signature fractured, cinematic compositions that explore female archetypes like the 'vixen' and the 'bombshell.' For the first time, the artist introduces shaped supports that turn her drawings into sculptural reliefs, alongside restrained passages of color that heighten the psychological intensity of her social critiques.
This exhibition marks a significant evolution for Park, moving from her earlier focus on the magician’s assistant motif toward more complex, agentic female protagonists. By blending influences from the Pictures Generation, comic book aesthetics, and artists like Alex Katz and Barbara Kruger, Park deconstructs how gender and femininity are performatively staged in contemporary media. The show highlights her rising status in the international art world and her increasingly sophisticated interrogation of the mechanics of spectatorship.