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May Levin '24
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
2020
Analog Film
By May Levin '24
A watercolor painting of Stanford Campus
2023
Acrylic Painting
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.
2016
acrylic on canvas
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
2018
Video Art
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
Oil paint on canvas
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
Digital Photograph
Whales and dolphins were my favorite animals when I was younger. In this piece, dark shadows contrasted by blue hues highlight that childhood bond.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
2017
Pen and Marker
Abstract photography with the goal of rendering mundane objects unrecognizable.
Photography
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
Girl meets whale.
Digital Illustration
This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security. Link to Artwork
2019
Creative Writing (Poetry)
These photographs were taken in Aegina, Greece. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era.
Digital Photographs
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
2022
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
acrylic and mixed media
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.