Piper Bangs (b. 2002) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her paintings feature biomorphic forms that act out internal lives, evolving restrictive visual metaphors inherited from art history into multivalent, resilient objects that disrupt dominant narratives of girlhood, gender, and sex. Grounded in the study of 19th-century academic painting techniques, Rococo ornamentation, and the luminous structures of the Dutch Golden Age, Bangs’ practice simultaneously turns beyond this lineage toward reflections on contemporary visual culture and personal experience.