https://adrianxuelu.com ADRIAN LU Sat, 20 May 2023 22:23:33 +0000 https://adrianxuelu.com en https://adrianxuelu.com/Front-page Sat, 20 May 2023 22:23:31 +0000 ADRIAN LU https://adrianxuelu.com/Front-page <img width="2158" height="2215" width_o="2158" height_o="2215" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45fd922dfd8ed1e5c8ac525962ded7fb89491f158209469a1576b63455603272/cloud.JPG" data-mid="179407268" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45fd922dfd8ed1e5c8ac525962ded7fb89491f158209469a1576b63455603272/cloud.JPG" /> https://adrianxuelu.com/Writing Sat, 20 May 2023 22:23:32 +0000 ADRIAN LU https://adrianxuelu.com/Writing &nbsp; Fiction “Variations on Dead Meat” in DIAGRAM 26.2 (July 2026) “Ten Discourses on Snow” in Miracle Monocle (Fall 2025) - Winner of the 2025 Award for Innovative Writing “Wu and Wei” in Denver Quarterly, Issue 57.1 (Winter 2023) - Winner of the 2023 John Williams Prize for Prose “Diary of My Leg Hair” in Guernica (December 2022) &nbsp; Criticism “A Review of Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” in The Adroit Journal (December 2025) “A Presence Solved By Its Own Absence: On Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma” in The Cleveland Review of Books (April 2024) https://adrianxuelu.com/Painting Sat, 20 May 2023 22:23:32 +0000 ADRIAN LU https://adrianxuelu.com/Painting <img width="2175" height="3156" width_o="2175" height_o="3156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3904f80f6c349565349796b9a2143f500ac2df573a1708d78dfd8f661df09fdb/TANTS.jpg" data-mid="253104264" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3904f80f6c349565349796b9a2143f500ac2df573a1708d78dfd8f661df09fdb/TANTS.jpg" />There Are Not Two Suns 14” x 20” oil on canvas 2026 <img width="2778" height="2068" width_o="2778" height_o="2068" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0ddf7a211d5b80a5ff08108df079fd75e0fe77712ea19d80f50abdcc2f0cfca/True-Blue.jpg" data-mid="252648496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0ddf7a211d5b80a5ff08108df079fd75e0fe77712ea19d80f50abdcc2f0cfca/True-Blue.jpg" /> True Blue 16” x 20” oil on linen 2026 <img width="2650" height="2622" width_o="2650" height_o="2622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f5276668dbceb63aece75d36b957e2becf8ecaf9e5d167758a89ca3335472a2/Ultraman.jpg" data-mid="250660088" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f5276668dbceb63aece75d36b957e2becf8ecaf9e5d167758a89ca3335472a2/Ultraman.jpg" /> Please Come Back, Ultraman 12” x 12” oil on canvas 2026 <img width="2177" height="3324" width_o="2177" height_o="3324" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72545a3e124ba7534ca4f7a368898a3bcc9c1cd45ee39cf32315c725108f3635/When-You-Wish.jpeg" data-mid="249874038" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72545a3e124ba7534ca4f7a368898a3bcc9c1cd45ee39cf32315c725108f3635/When-You-Wish.jpeg" />When You Wish Upon a Star... 7” x 10” graphite and watercolor pencil on paper 2026 <img width="1268" height="1280" width_o="1268" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/091210f749d8b759c01fa78c5968c63143ca22987442e3da7982ef6453e205c7/Me---Angel.jpeg" data-mid="246827829" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/091210f749d8b759c01fa78c5968c63143ca22987442e3da7982ef6453e205c7/Me---Angel.jpeg" /> Me &amp; Angel (Jacob’s on FaceTime) 12” x 12” oil on canvas 2026 <img width="2950" height="2327" width_o="2950" height_o="2327" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91986ac8c57feced275a3752f85be57d9b9b0ebdc3877ca5bfe80c2da87536c6/Your-Unfinished-Existence-I.jpeg" data-mid="242261417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91986ac8c57feced275a3752f85be57d9b9b0ebdc3877ca5bfe80c2da87536c6/Your-Unfinished-Existence-I.jpeg" /> Your Unfinished Existence 11” x 14” oil on canvas 2025 <img width="2851" height="3958" width_o="2851" height_o="3958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25d277838fcfb18c6732c52a93c6c98750bbe2e87339afb69a3b68492559c84f/Regarding-Your-Last-Message.jpeg" data-mid="227405057" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25d277838fcfb18c6732c52a93c6c98750bbe2e87339afb69a3b68492559c84f/Regarding-Your-Last-Message.jpeg" />Regarding Your Last Message9” x 11”graphite and watercolor pencil on paper 2024 <img width="2236" height="3031" width_o="2236" height_o="3031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faa33e40a515c85904f64bd74cff99748ec6063b383658f84ce3f7819138be3a/Though-We-Are-Few-in-Number.jpg" data-mid="227405103" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/faa33e40a515c85904f64bd74cff99748ec6063b383658f84ce3f7819138be3a/Though-We-Are-Few-in-Number.jpg" /> Though We Are Few in Number 9” x 11” graphite and watercolor pencil on paper 2024 <img width="1180" height="1180" width_o="1180" height_o="1180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/425aacf9be6713a294c5088f9b62dd27ff798f211b8a2138aa36daae169d5f16/Dead-Time-2.jpg" data-mid="222627878" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/425aacf9be6713a294c5088f9b62dd27ff798f211b8a2138aa36daae169d5f16/Dead-Time-2.jpg" /> Dead Time 29” x 29” oil and ink on canvas 2024 <img width="1294" height="1959" width_o="1294" height_o="1959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5c5f7c5d124b2717f62f4cf0ced45818a58a643ac14f4fb5dad024339646bf/Two-Monkeys.jpg" data-mid="219549912" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5c5f7c5d124b2717f62f4cf0ced45818a58a643ac14f4fb5dad024339646bf/Two-Monkeys.jpg" /> Two Monkeys 4” x 6” oil on wood 2024&nbsp; <img width="1241" height="1614" width_o="1241" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26a07f71298bfb361e0b847f647cfd78c66f17442aac0a3472c09ce07d9f3197/Sophia.jpeg" data-mid="215330486" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26a07f71298bfb361e0b847f647cfd78c66f17442aac0a3472c09ce07d9f3197/Sophia.jpeg" /> Sophia 8.5” x 11” oil on canvas 2024 <img width="1777" height="2388" width_o="1777" height_o="2388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c7e2c1ca6a4b3d7e3cb523bfba698c807a704657d1d9a72688e3c700ead1121/Beauty-On-Earth-2.0.jpeg" data-mid="221073265" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c7e2c1ca6a4b3d7e3cb523bfba698c807a704657d1d9a72688e3c700ead1121/Beauty-On-Earth-2.0.jpeg" /> BEAUTY ON EARTH IS BORING 9” x 12”oil on wood 2023 <img width="2490" height="3364" width_o="2490" height_o="3364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7b006b7df2f664038fe9acb5cd586f189807baa625e738531d98a5d44f1fa5d/Yellow-Portrait.jpg" data-mid="179409920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7b006b7df2f664038fe9acb5cd586f189807baa625e738531d98a5d44f1fa5d/Yellow-Portrait.jpg" /> Yellow Portrait 24” x 36”oil on canvas2019 <img width="2070" height="2070" width_o="2070" height_o="2070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91c7a96dcadf4a2c545dd4d9d3d9773b82e53b631138f7b1dbc557d6895f09f0/Modes-of-Trespass.jpg" data-mid="179412628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91c7a96dcadf4a2c545dd4d9d3d9773b82e53b631138f7b1dbc557d6895f09f0/Modes-of-Trespass.jpg" /> Modes of Trespass (Blink Eye) 16” x 16”oil on canvas2020 <img width="1441" height="1441" width_o="1441" height_o="1441" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/963b1eacc3ae634676a7852b7b4d805adfcb8927325f4df7d53d8739b89d2054/Untitled-Aspects-of-Light.jpg" data-mid="179412629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/963b1eacc3ae634676a7852b7b4d805adfcb8927325f4df7d53d8739b89d2054/Untitled-Aspects-of-Light.jpg" /> Untitled (Aspects of Light) 36” x 36”oil on canvas2017 &nbsp;<img width="2554" height="3404" width_o="2554" height_o="3404" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/402491e061d5745fb0d1a55c058d7b0cf100da95807a432af2704bf4832309aa/when-my-face.jpg" data-mid="179409913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/402491e061d5745fb0d1a55c058d7b0cf100da95807a432af2704bf4832309aa/when-my-face.jpg" /> when my face becomes an artifact of longing 36” x 48”oil on canvas2020 https://adrianxuelu.com/About Sat, 20 May 2023 22:23:33 +0000 ADRIAN LU https://adrianxuelu.com/About Adrian Lu is a writer and a painter. He holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His work has been published in Guernica,&nbsp;Denver Quarterly,&nbsp;The Cleveland Review of Books, Miracle Monocle, and DIAGRAM, among others. &nbsp;