Inspired by women who have returned to their art practices after time off as caregivers, South Korean artist Guimi You’s first major show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery features scenes of art studios suffused with light as a metaphor for resurging creativity. Here, in an artwork titled ‘Painting, Again,’ a glowing bouquet in the foreground acts as a symbol for new life, its blue, yellow and orange colors repeated in a flower-shaped artwork on the studio wall. In many paintings, shelves hold small artworks symbolizing growth (via trees) or the ignition of an idea (in a blue matchbox). Behind, a painter mentally ascends the mountain peaks behind her as she works with uninterrupted concentration at her easel. (On view through Aug 14th).
