About Oscen || Nen Chang & Liz Tecca

Oscen is Nen Chang and Liz Tecca, painters who love vibrant colors, wild textures, and the unpredictability of paint. Nen’s intermittent Cotard’s Delusion leads her to juxtapose the erotic and grotesque. She dresses objectively horrific concepts in beautiful detail and surreal imagery to coax the viewer past the revulsion one might experience when encountering a corpse or instance of trauma, altering how one might approach the uncanny or the sublime. Nen invites the viewer to trespass into an experience where one might understand what it means to suffer, die, and then continue to function. She pulls an unspoken vision of the human condition from the fluidity of water, the subtlety of second glances, and her ability to pair painstaking attention to detail with the freedom of frenzied motion. Liz creates to understand humanity and the complexities emotions add in shaping a person's being. Loneliness and solitude are experiences that every person will encounter in their lifetime--whether brief or enduring, her works strive to mirror the feelings that are coupled with such periods, with figures that exist in a melancholic world of their mind's making. These individuals tread a sliding scale ranging from scantly sinister to iconic, often surrounded by creeping darkness or the symbols of their existence. Ambiguous interpretation is key in their composure; they have been witnesses to unspoken ecstasies and tragedies that the viewer is left to decipher.Read their story