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Leela Mahajan '25
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
2022
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
By Leela Mahajan '25
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
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
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
Acrylic on Paper
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
Analog Film
These three prints depict tide pool scenes in Moss Beach, CA. They are part of a series, “From Puddles to Pools: A Showcase of Marine Invertebrates.”
2024
Sea Slug is a woodcut and the other two are etchings.
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
Graphic Design
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
2017
Oil paint and paper on paper
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
This was a fun illustration that I polished up for International Day of the Girl this year (October 11)!
Digital art
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece depicts a fictionalized memory of my grandfather, who I only knew through his woven hats and birds passed down through my family.
Oil Paint on Canvas
The cellphone becomes a monumental, invasive aspect of experiences (especially in nature), yet is so integral in shaping memories.
iPhone photographs, collaged on Photoshop
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
Oil on canvas