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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
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
Photography
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
2015
Mixed Media
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
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
2024
Video Art (with sound)
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
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
Oil on canvas
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
generational echos is an interactive art piece created using Processing, delving into the deeply ingrained cultural values in Vietnamese society.
2023
Interactive Video Installation
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
2020
I was inspired by a picture I took of my grandfather when visiting Korea for the first time since immigrating to America in 2001.
Oil on Canvas
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
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
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 painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
Oil Paint on Canvas
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
2018
The feet of my former roommate are greeted by the warm light that streams in through the blinds.
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
Digital Rendering