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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.
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2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
2020
Digital Photograph
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
2018
window screens, oil paint
This self portrait depicts the artist in self reflection. The couple gazes forward, as hidden collaged images loom behind, reminding them of the past.
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 30 x 40 in
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
2019
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
2023
Poem
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
Oil on Canvas
I made this piece as an exploration of how cows are perceived in different cultures, and society’s relationship to animals as a whole.
2015
Mixed Media
I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.
Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood Sculpture
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.
Digital inkjet print
I was inspired by a picture I took of my grandfather when visiting Korea for the first time since immigrating to America in 2001.
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
Digital 3D Render
Released some restless energy onto paper with this portrait sketch.
Graphite on Paper
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
2017
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo