Lehmann Maupin Launches ‘In Dialogue’ Exhibition Series

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Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce In Dialogue, a new series placing artists from the gallery’s program and beyond in an intimate conversation through the lens of their respective approaches to artmaking, often with a focus on foregrounding and contextualising intergenerational discourse.

For the series debut, Lehmann Maupin will present In Dialogue: Catherine Opie & Anna Park, on view October 17 through November 9 in New York, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 24 from 6 to 8 pm. Following this inaugural exhibition, the gallery will present In Dialogue: Robin Rhode & Rogelio Báez Vega at the gallery’s London location, opening November 20.

In Dialogue: Catherine Opie & Anna Park considers two significant approaches to contemporary portraiture, through photography and charcoal and ink on paper, respectively. Throughout art history, portraits have been used to memorialise, admire, and convey individual narratives; the genre is by nature intimate and mandates a humanistic encounter with the subject matter.

Formally, portraiture is often harnessed to mark moments of transition in a subject’s life. This iteration of In Dialogue looks at Opie and Park’s approach to the portrayal of others, and themselves, through a visual language that is distinctly their own.

Main image: Anna Park, Lean In (2024). Charcoal, ink, paint, foam, paper mounted on panel. 96 x 70 x 4 1/4 inches (each). © Anna Park. Courtesy the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.