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Meagan Wu '18
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
Link to Website
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Meagan Wu '18
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
2017
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
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 series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
Pen and Ink
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
2022
Interactive Digital Work
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
Oil on canvas
Girl meets whale.
Digital Illustration
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
2023
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
Water Color on Paper
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
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
A mixed-media interactive piece installed at Stanford’s annual “Frost Festival”. The piece embodies Stanford’s goals of inclusion and diversity.
2018
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Vinyl, Sticker on Canvas
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
Watercolor and Pencil
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
Location: Law School terrace
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas