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Han Dao '26
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art
By Han Dao '26
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
2022
Pencil on paper
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
2018
Photo
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
Oil paint on canvas
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
2023
35mm Photography
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
2016
Color Film
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
Oil Paint on Canvas
The sky disc’s dynamic effects on viewing the sky were photographically documented over the course of a sunrise and a sunset.
2017
Installation: printed plastic sheeting (pictorico), fishing wire
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
Ink on Paper
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
Gouache on Paper
Serenity from within results from letting go.
Watercolor
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
Location: Lathrop 24/7 Study Room
Digital Illustration
Often, I find myself missing the changing of seasons. But if I just look closely, signs of autumn are all around.
Nature Photography
SJC redesign – inspired by bold ‘Mod’ textiles, rooted in the London-based 1960’s ‘Mod’ fashion and music subculture centered around modern jazz.
Graphic Design and Print
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
Oil paint on Canvas