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Khuyen Le '21
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
2018
Photograph of campus scenes
By Khuyen Le '21
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
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
Lucky to witness a green Dish.
2017
Photo
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.
acrylic on canvas
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
Acrylic on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light.
Photo with artistic editing
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in ChavÃn de Huántar.
Digital Visual Art
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
2019
monotype on paper
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
Photograph
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
Oil paint on panel
Aluminum CNC machined monstera leaf inspired bottle opener. I promise it looks better than it sounds.
Sculpture
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
3D computer graphics
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas