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The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
2023
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
By Daniel Richman '27
Water City
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
2020
Digital painting
By Catherine Mullings '22
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
Joshua Tree
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
2018
Photograph of Landscape
By Brian Nguyen '21
Moonrise
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
By Nicola Buskirk '22
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
Sonic Ovum
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink.
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2020
colored pencil, poetry
By Sam Howell Petersen '23
Reaching Out
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Train Wreck
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
By Helena Zhang '22
Light Shower
A light spring shower wakes the soul.
Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
2019
Photoshop
By Tianxing Ma '19
Submersion
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Meagan Wu '18
Queer Intimacy
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood Sculpture
By Bryan Defjan '24
Memorial Church
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
By Vivian Xiao '28
Don’t Stare
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
2023
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Emily Zhang '26
Sandy Treasures
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Genesis
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
2016
Wax Pastel on Wood
By Lia "Bear" Kim '21
Let Her Eat Cake
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
By Brooke Ferber '20
Utopia No. 1
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
2018
Paper Maps on Cardboard
By Elias Gálvez-Arango '