Liana Finck

Under The Oven Gallery is proud to present Excuse Me, an exhibition of recent Instagram cartoons by artist Liana Finck. This exhibition coincides with the release of Finck’s book of the same name.

Over the past several years Liana Finck’s voice, animated by her drawings and cartoons, has achieved a generational ubiquity for the artist’s uncanny ability to capture contemporary absurdities in a manner that is refreshingly direct, accessible, and poignant. Finck’s signature scratchy line drawings take form in the cramped and shrinking public commons of subway cars and freelancer cafes, each line a tendril unfurling, gasping for air. Finck’s popularity—evidenced by over 340,000 Instagram followers at the time of writing—is in part due to her casually self-aware propensity to tease out the truly tough, the angst, and the existential paralysis of our current moment in this weird frontier of digital image distribution.

Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and LMCC, and received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2008. Finck currently teaches at Barnard College.