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Katie Han '23
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
2023
ink on rice paper; poetry
By Katie Han '23
Location: East Asia Library
2021
Digital Illustration
How do you heal after being discarded?
Acrylic on Canvas
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
2014
Oil Paint on Canvas
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.
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2019
Photography
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
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
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
2017
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
2020
Digital painting
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
Wax Pastel on Wood
A surreal portrayal of the cost of modern designer fashion culture.
2015
Scratchboard
generational echos is an interactive art piece created using Processing, delving into the deeply ingrained cultural values in Vietnamese society.
Interactive Video Installation
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
Oil on canvas
Cool portrait of girl trying to keep in her tears.
2018
Photoshop
My family, despite being cramped in a bungalow room that was our home, share warmth and happiness beyond understanding.
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.
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
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.
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story