Liana Z. Weber is an Austrian/American artist who creates vibrant, realistic, colored pencil drawings that address the cultural constructs of sexuality, power, identity and gender. She received her bachelor’s degree in arts with a focus on painting & drawing from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Drawing on her own lived experience as a woman, Weber creates large scale colored pencil artworks that playfully examine the contrasts of what it is to be a woman in contemporary western society. Most important to Weber, is that she produces thought provoking works of art that can be readily interpreted and appreciated by any individual, regardless of history or background.

In her ongoing “SISTERHOOD” and “(HER)O” series, Weber merges the mythical, religious and historic with popular cultural iconography & moments, to construct drawings which replace the traditional use of female subjectivity with brash unapologetic female figures that are poised as defiant to the viewer.  In each series she is reimagining the narrative of (respectively) a chaste pious woman of god as a self-assured/sufficient woman navigating a primarily patriarchal system and the allegorical wilful rebellious woman who is bested by the male hero as the all powerful hero of their own story.