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Lily Thai '27
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
2022
Graphite on Paper
By Lily Thai '27
These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.
2020
Collage & ink pen
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
2017
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
2015
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
She wipes the mask off after a long day.
2018
Photoshop
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
Oil Paint on Canvas
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
Oil paint on paper
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
2019
Blender 3D render
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
Scratchboard
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
2023
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
Oil paint on canvas
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Link to Website
Acrylic on Canvas
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
Short Film
Koreanthian is based on merging different architectural styles that transcends geographical, cultural, and historical differences.
2024
Pen & Ink Drawing on Bristol Paper
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
Pen and Ink
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
2016
Oil on canvas