‘For me, drawing has always felt like shouting the things from your mind you wanted to say for a while. It’s speaking in a language you were born with, rather than taught, it feels like the purest form of self-expression.’
- Liana Finck

Over the past several years Liana Finck’s voice, animated by her drawings and cartoons, has achieved something of a ubiquity for the artist’s uncanny ability to capture contemporary absurdities in a manner that is not only timely and direct, but also accessible and refreshingly poignant. One may imagine Finck’s signature scratchy line drawings taking form in the cramped and shrinking public commons of subway cars and freelancer cafes, each line a tendril unfurling, gasping for air; perhaps hysterically so. And perhaps Finck’s popularity—she has 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, the existential paralysis in a certain way in this weird frontier of digital image distribution.

In Alone Together, a selection of her drawings playing into ideas of solitude, loneliness and the challenge of social connections is presented in STUKCafé.

Courtesy the artist

Image credit: © Liana Finck

Liana Finck
°1986, USA

Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and illustrator who lives and works in New York City. She has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 2005 and frequently posts her autobiographical cartoons on Instagram. 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. Her books are called Excuse Me, Passing for Human, and A Bintel Brief. Finck currently teaches at Barnard College.