Adrianne Huang's works on paper engage simultaneously with the hypnagogic and the concrete, casting richly detailed images into layers of visual metaphor. Informed by both the beauty and the unease of being a second-generation immigrant in the South, she examines broader subjects of attachment, regret, and longing. Her subjects inhabit a world of unexpected contrasts and melancholic fantasy, expressing an underlying frustration with the human experience and proposing half-answers to difficult questions. These questions ask about the expression of vulnerability in the face of an ambivalent outside world, the nature and necessity of coping mechanisms, the condition of being at odds with oneself, the dissonance between linear time and loss, and the ephemerality of memory and moments. Huang's work invites viewers to join her in grappling with such subjects from a personal perspective, and to pursue catharsis in the absence of certainty.
Adrianne likes jackets, rabbits, deep sea fish, late night drives, and guitar-forward jazz. If she could, she would spend most days collecting stationery items, trying spicy foods, and playing mahjong with friends.