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Jianna So '22
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
Link to Website
2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
Two girls, Cloud and Moon, are safe in space.
2018
Photoshop
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
2016
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
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
I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.
2020
gouache on paper
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
This work showcases cultural connection and displacement. The food that should be on your table is now hung on a wall, commemorated but inaccessible.
Monoprints on food wrapping paper, laser cut stencils
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
Photograph
This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.
Acrylic on Canvas
A ghostly woman draped in a silk shawl and pearls.
2022
Charcoal
Mice own your belongings at night.
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Knowledge allows the mind to bloom.
Digital Illustration
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
Short Film
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas