Austyn weiner biography

Austyn Weiner is a product of her environment. The 23-year-old artist’s explosive color palette comes from her hometown of Miami; the recurring lines—now Weiner’s signature—from her frantic, oversaturated New York existence.

But it is the emotion evident in what Weiner does, the part she draws out from her polarized personalities, that lends her work a seductive quality. Weiner does not shy away from revealing herself within and alongside her art—her blog, Austyntatious, is filled with Instagram selfies, and she wrote the biography featured on her website rather than relying on a savvy press agent.

It’s the rare young artist who’s committed to revealing her image rather than cultivating it.

Recently Weiner produced her largest work to date, an arresting 40-by-10-foot Plexiglas image. It is her first contribution to a newly formed artist collective, The Arts Initiative, conceived to fill public spaces with larg