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Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
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2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
2018
Oil paint on found wood
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
Oil Paint on Canvas
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Watercolor on Paper
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
2020
Collage & ink pen
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
Acrylic on Canvas
Oil on Canvas
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
Photoshop
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
Charcoal on Paper
A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
Wood Sculpture
Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
Pencil on paper
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art