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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
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
2017
Oil paint and paper on paper
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
2020
Photography Series
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
2023
Gouache on Paper
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
An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.
MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)
cloudy with a chance of love
Digital illustration
This series utilizes seemingly arbitrary visual imagery overlaid onto written stream of consciousness to evoke imaginations of trauma and healing.
2019
Charcoal and Ink on Toned Paper
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
2016
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
Pen and Marker
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
Watercolor
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Roses bloom from her cuts.
Photoshop
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
Oil on canvas
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Photography
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
This piece emerged from a desire to merge figurative and abstract forms. (there are some flaws in the .jpg, if needed I can retake pictures)
2015
Acrylic on Canvas
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
Oil paint on Canvas