An intimate portrait of the artist keeled over in a burnt orange top, painted over an earlier, stern portrait of a female figure among dense, towering rectangular forms.

Austin Li Chang is an oil painter of nebulous, emotional portraits and images of the everyday. Working from photographs, he balances close observation with memory, letting each image distort toward sensation. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and was most recently featured in New American Paintings' NOVA 1 publication.