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Art Practice 2026 @aileenrubio.art
This photo was taken in the McMurty Art Building. I used black paint in photoshop to highlight the lights and computer.
2016
Digital Photograph
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
A self-portrait composed of identity objects: rings from my mother, the teapot on my coffee table, the graphic on my favorite t-shirt, etc.
Digital Collage
This is a painting of a memory of a moment of me and my boyfriend in his hot tub, right before he told me he loved me for the first time.
2022
Oil Paint on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2018
Photo
This piece seeks to capture the way people burnout and lose themselves to fulfill the expectations of others.
Digital Illustration
A mixed-media interactive piece installed at Stanford’s annual “Frost Festival”. The piece embodies Stanford’s goals of inclusion and diversity.
Link to Website
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Vinyl, Sticker on Canvas
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.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
Oil on canvas
Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.
2025
Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church
Isolation, fear, and uncertainty are themes that come up more in our lives, seen through nighttime photos taken in the woods.
Photography
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
Water Color on Paper
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
2017
Laser Cut Birchwood
I was looking for a subject I could depict using my new ink pens, and this sculpture was perfect because it included lots of shadows and some colors.
Ink Pen
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’
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
Color Film
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph