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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
Quad is always changing amazingly.
2017
Photo
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
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 painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
2016
acrylic on canvas
Contemplating place in the West, while memories of home in the South persist.
2018
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 in
A series of photo edits of everyday moments at Stanford.
Digital Art
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Acrylic paint on canvas
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
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
This series was taken at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion.
2019
Series of Photographs
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
Location: East Asia Library
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
A portrait of a good dog.
A coloring pages for people to color and de-stress:) These pages are part of my project Coloring to Cope for the COVID-19 art grant.
Digital
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard with numbers juxtaposing letters, emphasizing how some things are not meant to be rushed and will happen in time.
Acrylic on Canvas