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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
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
A portrait of a good dog.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
2019
3D computer graphics
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Photography
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Analog Film
A realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This delves into the detrimental beauty standards that social media apps promote through the use of filters and algorithms (that favors symmetry).
2023
Tempera paint, cloth, alcohol markers on Canvas
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
window screens, oil paint
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
2022
3D animation (Blender)
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
2024
Video Art (with sound)
This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.
India Ink on Paper
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
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
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
Kumari, the living Goddess of Nepal, is not allowed to speak to those who worship her, yet her glowing eyes depict that she has so much to tell us.
Graphite
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
Water Color on Paper