Art by Adrianne Huang

Adrianne Huang works across painting, drawing, and book arts to navigate uncertainty and complex emotional states. Her work celebrates the fading, the fleeting, and the departed, inviting viewers to pursue catharsis in the absence of certainty. How do we know to treasure things before they’re gone, or when to let them go after? In response to the dissonance between memory, presence, grief, and attachment, she finds tenderness in melancholy and melancholy in tenderness, creating images as both an emotional release and distillation. She evokes tension and ambiguity by connecting unexpected subjects and settings, like scenes from a vivid, constantly shifting dream. Objects of personal fascination – tropical plants, fish, the Chinese zodiac, and human figures – become stand-ins for comfort, regret, and the elasticity of time. Stranger than life but more familiar than fantasy, these images serve as wish fulfillment, dream diary, self-critique, and catalog of curiosity.

Adrianne has exhibited work across the United States. She likes rabbits, orchids, late night drives, and guitar-forward jazz. If she could, she would spend most days picking wild fruit, collecting stationery items, and playing mahjong with friends.