Artist Profile: Lindsay Liang
Overview
Lindsay Liang is a New York-based painter whose work explores the tension between vulnerability and control through surreal portraiture and symbolic abstraction. Working primarily in acrylic on wood, Liang constructs psychologically charged scenes that probe the porous boundaries between body, mind, and environment. Her figures often exist in liminal states—submerged, unmasked, or dissolving—reflecting contemporary anxieties around identity and emotional exhaustion.
In Draining, a haunting profile of a human head dissolves into a faucet stream, its skin peeled back to reveal raw, visceral tissue. The figure is caught mid-transformation—half mask, half muscle—emerging from or disappearing into the flow. With bold color and visceral form, Liang captures the quiet violence of burnout and the slippery erosion of self in daily life.
Featured Artwork
Bushwick Gallery
Artwork Title: Draining
Year of Creation: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Dimensions: 11 x 12 inches and 9 x 16 inches
Location: New York City
Price: Available upon request