View Public Art
Saturday, October 26
Buy tickets
Start Making
By Topic
Career Pathways
Other Opportunities
Learn More
About Us
People
Connect with us
Lily Thai '27
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
2023
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
By Lily Thai '27
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
Link to Website
Acrylic Painting
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
This piece explores duality in behavior: relaxing the tongue can provide a positive experience during kissing, but can prove deadly with sleep apnea. Link to Artwork
2022
Writing
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
Oil Paint on Canvas
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
2014
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
2018
acrylic and mixed media
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
Paper Maps on Cardboard
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
This photo was taken in the McMurty Art Building. I used black paint in photoshop to highlight the lights and computer.
2016
Digital Photograph
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
Oil on canvas
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
Colored Pencil on Paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
This is an image of a mushroom found on a trail off Old La Honda Road. I wanted to create a mystical yet comforting feeling surrounding the mushroom.
Photography
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
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
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
2024
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils