manda Wall knows what you’re thinking. She’d think it, too, were the shoe on the other foot. “I have an art career because of Instagram; I can admit that’s why people saw my paintings for the first time,” says a monotone Wall, cracking into a La Croix while surrounded by pieces for her second solo exhibition at Almine Rech. “I know what [they] see; it is a hard transition to make.” The former beauty executive still operates in hesitance, struggling with the word “artist” despite a gallery roster appearance next to James Turrell, Richard Prince, Julian Schnabel, and Kenny Scharf. “It’s a big word, it’s a tiny word, and it has the entirety of art history behind it,” she shrugs. “I still get tripped up when people ask what I do.” It’s a refreshingly
