Bryan Defjan '24
Queer Intimacy
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood Sculpture
By Bryan Defjan '24
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Riven
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.
2017
Digital Visual Art
By Andrew Lesh '19
Reaching Out
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
This Too Shall Pass
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
By Jackie Liu '25
Cattle Soul
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
By Noah DeWald '20
Father Sometime Ago
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Oil on Canvas
By Regina Kong '22
Nangeli
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
2022
Mural
By Aatika Singh '28
Pepsi Cola
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
By Chase Porter '17
Ducks of Stanford
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
2018
Digital photography prints
By Soraya Fereydooni '20
Killer in the Sun
A three panel survey of a new environment.
2018
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
By Gunner Dongieux '21
A Matter of Time
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.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Portrait of a Glass, Empty (2020); Barriers (2021)
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
By Vrinda Suresh '21
Security Blanket
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
2019
Photography
By Kelsey Wang '22
Urban Constellations
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
2022
Oil paint on panel
By Christina Kent '22
Tale of Two Cities
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
2016
Acrylic on Paper
By Amelia Talkington '22
Stanford through an artist’s eyes
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
This is a painting I did for the Congressional Art Competition. The painting is of my mother’s horse JR on my last ride on him before he died.
2014
Acrylic on canvas 24″x 24″
By Alexis Ivec '21
Beyond the Window
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
2017
acrylic on canvas
By Helena Zhang '22