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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
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
2024
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
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 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
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.
2022
Graphite
Taken at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature.
2019
Photograph
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
Digital Photograph
A gray tabby cat with timeless, marble-like eyes filled with stories to tell and lessons to share sits near a bush, encapsulating the spirit of Paris.
Colored Pencil
This series is meant to bring inspiration, energy and presence to the broader community during a difficult time of shelter-in-place and quarantine.
2020
Acrylic gouache on Yupo Polypropylene Paper
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
2017
46″ x 32”
I took this photograph in a forrest in Germany. I wonder what the dog is doing right now.
2016
Color Film
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
Acrylic on canvas
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
Ink Resist on Paper
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
The cellphone becomes a monumental, invasive aspect of experiences (especially in nature), yet is so integral in shaping memories.
iPhone photographs, collaged on Photoshop