Izlin Weinberg (b. 2002) is an artist working in oil paint and metal sculpture, drawing from a background rooted in the rural corridors of Vermont, where her parents converted an abandoned junkyard into the family home. Weinberg developed an early sensitivity to the histories embedded in matter, and her practice centers on salvaged and archived materials, giving them new life through physical labor and transformation. She pushes her oil paintings to behave like metal through dense surfaces, sculptural paint, and the physical resistance of a palette knife, while her metal sculptures are treated as drawings in space, bending rigid forms toward fluidity and gesture. Her work explores the loss of human intuition in an age of the mechanical and depersonalized, drawing from stories of antiquity that point to the same truth: it is easier to get what you want, but far harder to love or be close.