Showgirls Are Forever - Original Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting on Paper by Marisa Mu

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Marisa Mu’s watercolor paintings celebrate liberated bodies in motion, using playful gesture and vivid color to create scenes that feel … Read more Marisa Mu’s watercolor paintings celebrate liberated bodies in motion, using playful gesture and vivid color to create scenes that feel joyful, intimate, and full of momentum. "Showgirls are Forever" gathers dozens of small figures across an open field of paper, each one rendered with a confident economy of line and pigment. Bright socks, patterned details, and shifting silhouettes build a rhythmic, choreographed energy, balancing spontaneity with careful spacing. The work feels light and buoyant at first glance, then gradually reveals a deeper tenderness around community, pleasure, and belonging.

• One-of-a-kind figurative watercolor artwork measuring 23 inches high by 23 inches wide
• Created with Watercolor on French Coldpress Paper
• Unframed (framing required for display)
• Signed by the artist on the front and back
• Certificate of authenticity is included
• Free local Los Angeles area delivery
• Affordable U.S. and international shipping available

Marisa Mu is an interdisciplinary artist based between Melbourne and New York, whose practice centers figurative watercolor and painting as a space for radical visibility, tenderness, and self determination. Grounded in lived experience as a queer woman of color, Mu explores queer expression, intersectional feminism, the Asian diaspora, and body liberation through imagery that affirms joy and agency as active, present forces. Originally from Australia, Mu brings an expanded, global perspective to contemporary figurative work.

Mu’s visual language is shaped by cultural lineage and diasporic memory, including her East Timorese Hakka Chinese heritage, and by a commitment to painting as a form of truth telling. Alongside her studio practice, she co founded Tits & Co., a global platform advancing cultural equity and elevating female and gender expansive artists.

Mu has been recognized with major milestones and awards, including being named Emerging Artist of the Year in 2019, and in 2025 she presented a major exhibition at New York City’s Gracie Mansion during Pride season. Her education includes a Bachelor of Design from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales.

Artplex Gallery has been representing and exhibiting Marisa Mu's original artworks in Los Angeles since 2026, presenting her impressive works to an international collector base around the globe. The gallery exhibits a well-curated selection of original artworks beyond the ordinary from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artplex Gallery is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery.

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Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Reclaiming Space, Machine Hall, Sydney, NSW
Up With the Clouds, Leda Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
With Pleasure, At The Above, Melbourne, VIC
For Our Collective Future, Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT
2023 The Hysterical Self Love Project That Everyone Is Invited to, Leda Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
2022 To Be Alone and Naked, At The Above, Melbourne, VIC
The Power of Womxn, RED Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Block Party for Love, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2020 Visions of Love, FortyFive Downstairs, Melbourne, VIC
Wonder Women, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Kaleidoscope Dancers, Wedge Gallery, Sydney Town Hall, NSW
2018 Marisa Mu, King of The Jungle, Sydney, NSW
2017 The Statement Makers, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Rhythm in Colour, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney.NSW

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 YES Exhibition, aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Fever Pitch, Flatiron Project Space, NY, New York
Abstraction, curated by Elle Zoltak, Compendium Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC
The Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
Dream Sweet, Honey Bones Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
LOCALS, Outre Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
In Homage, Divisions Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
The Affordable Art Fair Brisbane, QLD
The Affordable Art Fair, Sydney, NSW
2023 Hosterium, curated by ArtHouse Selective, Waxflower, Melbourne, VIC
The Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
The Other Art Fair Sydney NSW
A Female Gaze curated bv Andy Dinan, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
GATHER TOGETHER, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Universal Love Languages, Sketch Gallery, The Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, NSW
LOCALS, Outre Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Life in Colour, Sketch Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Decks for Change curated by Kirby Clarke, No-Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2022 Gather curated by Georgina Arnott, Sketch Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Continuum curated by Jessica Dang, The Meat Market, Melbourne, VIC
The Affordable Art Fair Melbourne, VIC
The Other Art Fair Sydney, NSW
The Other Art Fair New York
The Other Art Fair Melbourne, VIC
For the Deckade, Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Taking Up Space curated by Bo Bickmore and Variation Three, The Meat Market, Melbourne, VIC
Secret Art Show curated by Zoe Milah DeJesus, Melbourne, VIC
LOCALS, Outre Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Towards Utopia curated by Bethany Fincher, Saatchi Art, Los Angeles, CA
2021 QUEER VOICES curated by Joseph Romano, Melbourne Fashion Week Capsule, Melbourne, VIC
PRIDE curated by Saatchi Art, William Vale, New York
The Other Art Fair, Sydney, NSW
2020 Dancing Queens curated by Midsumma Festival, SoHigh Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2019 My Two Cents, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
The Other Art Fair Los Angeles
The Other Art Fair New York
The Other Art Fair Sydney, NSW
The Other Art Fair Melbourne, VIC
The Other Art Fair Sydney, NSW
2018 Colours Are All I Feel curated by B.T.W., Commune Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Orbital Hybridisation curated by Uncast, Usfin Atelier, Sydney, NSW
All Bodies curated by Anthony Sakr, Farr Side Gallery, Sydney, NSW
The Epitome of Her-O curated by Marisa Mu &Simone Taylor, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney, NSW See less