Lehmann Maupin presents Hot Honey, a series of new works by New York–based artist Anna Park, on view at the gallery’s London location from April 30 through May 30. Featuring Park’s signature large-scale charcoal works, the exhibition centers on female protagonists who both inhabit and unsettle the archetypes of the vixen and the bombshell. Marking Park’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, Hot Honey signals a pivotal moment in the artist’s evolving practice, as technical ambition and cultural critique converge with renewed force.

Drawing from popular media spanning the early twentieth century to the present, Park’s work builds on the premise that gender is constructed through repeated stylization. Born in South Korea and raised in Utah, Park often found herself on the periphery, acutely aware of gendered expectations and social cues. That experience continues to inform her practice. Like Neo Rauch, she navigates the intersection of personal narrative and broader social politics, staging fractured scenes that foreground the performative dimensions of gender. In her more recent series, such as Look, look (2023–2024) and Mirror Shy (2022), her focus narrows to a single female figure, often cropped within comic-strip-like frames. Flattened features and stark compositions recall the cool clarity of Alex Katz, heightening the psychological intensity of each scene.