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Janice Li '24
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
2021
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
By Janice Li '24
Originally meant as a study of diffused light in a “nocturne” scene, this piece is a take on portraiture, figures, and landscape in one.
2020
Oil Paint on Canvas
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
Anatomy of the Vogue is a portraiture study of clinical anatomy that bridges human and corpse through a play on the fashion industry.
Link to Website
2016
Colored Pencil
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
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
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Projection Installation
Series highlighting experiences with environmental change, connection to place, and emotional displacement by collaging satellite maps with portraits.
2022
Photography/digital collage
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
Acrylic on canvas
I was inspired by a picture I took of my grandfather when visiting Korea for the first time since immigrating to America in 2001.
2023
Oil on Canvas
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
2018
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
Ink Resist on Paper
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
Acrylic on Paper
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
2015
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.
Markers on paper
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
This was a fun illustration that I polished up for International Day of the Girl this year (October 11)!
Digital art
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
I took this photo at the Palo Alto Caltrain station in the fall. I used black ink and a black and white filter to provide an “outside of time” look.
Digital Photograph