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Sonic Ovum
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink.
Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
By Sam Howell Petersen '23
Venice
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
2018
Colored Pencil on Paper
By German Enik '22
Your Grandpa Kimo Weaves Lauhala
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
2023
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Kea Kahoilua Clebsch '26
Illuminating the Mind
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
By Maia Mosse '20
Figures in Ochre
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
2018
Oil on canvas
By Cathy Yang '20
Childhood Silence
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
2016
acrylic on canvas
By Helena Zhang '22
Bruises
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
2016
Oil on canvas
By Nan Munger '20
Visitor I
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
2023
Oil paint on canvas
By L. Song Wu '24
Into the Mist
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Ducks of Stanford
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
2018
Digital photography prints
By Soraya Fereydooni '20
The Cabbage Lady
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
2020
Digital Art
By Majorca "Jorie" Bateman-Coe '20
Queer Intimacy
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
By Bryan Defjan '24
Still I Rise
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life.
Duration: 05:05
2018
Video Art
By Chun Wang '19
middle passage
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
2017
Oil paint on paper
By Cairo Mo '20
Yanofsky’s Legacy
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
2018
Photograph
By Suzanne Ou '23
Portrait of a Glass, Empty (2020); Barriers (2021)
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
By Vrinda Suresh '21
