Jackie Liu '25
Trying to Forgive
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
2022
Oil on canvas
By Jackie Liu '25
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Illuminating the Mind
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
By Maia Mosse '20
Nostalgia
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.
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
Hand over hand
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.
By Maia Mosse '20
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
Green with Envy
This piece shows how social media can lead to jealously through comparing yourself with what you see on the internet.
2023
Paper, watercolor, tempera paint sticks, gouache, and Photoshop
By Rania Zuri '28
Burnout
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
2020
Digital Illustration
By Felicity Huang '25
one foot in the water
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
2016
Oil on canvas
By Vivienne Le '19
Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery!
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
2017
Ink and print on wood
By Olivia Popp '20
Fractured
Fractured is a piece that depicts the fracturing of self-esteem, reflecting the experience with social media and detrimental beauty standards.
2022
Acrylic Paint, Marker, and Staples on cardstock photo print
By Rania Zuri '28
Truth
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
By Nicola Buskirk '22
Father Sometime Ago
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
By Regina Kong '22
Joshua Tree
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
2018
Photograph of Landscape
By Brian Nguyen '21
Quarantine Paintings
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
By Katie Han '23
Untitled
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
By Delaney Rua '20
Time to Spare
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
2016
Digital Photograph
By Connor Gilmore '21
Harbor
These photographs were taken in Aegina, Greece. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era.
2019
Digital Photographs
By Laura Anderson '21
Swimming
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Christina Ba '26