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Jianna So '22
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
Location: Main Quad
2023
Digital Illustration
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
2018
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
Photograph
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
2017
Ink on Paper
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
cloudy with a chance of love
2020
Digital illustration
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
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Photography
A realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.
Oil paint on canvas
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
2024
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Quad is always changing amazingly.
The cellphone becomes a monumental, invasive aspect of experiences (especially in nature), yet is so integral in shaping memories.
iPhone photographs, collaged on Photoshop