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Aileen Rubio '26
Art Practice 2026 @aileenrubio.art
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coffee showers
inspired by Mondays, morning showers, and an addiction to caffeine.
2019
Digital illustration
By Elaine Park '21
My Boy
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
By Victoria Hill '20
David
“David” is a 3D bust loosely based on Michelangelo’s piece of the same name. Inspired by the music video of “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
2018
Blender 3D Render
By Noah DeWald '20
Sonic Ovum
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink.
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2020
colored pencil, poetry
By Sam Howell Petersen '23
Crushed
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Hannah Cha '25
GROWTHesque
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)
By Leeth Singhage '26
Flowers II
I made this painting with an attempt to capture the vibrant feeling of spring and awakening. It’s a reminder of the beauty and color of life!
2014
Oil on canvas
By Shin Mei Chan '18
A Moment at the Louvre
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
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Bird Watching
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring IntroSem students and Continuing Studies students.
2019
Photograph
By Yifei He '22
Portrait of a Glass, Empty
Inspired by the strange reflection of an empty glass sitting on a table, this is a piece is about power and powerlessness—control and lack of it.
2020
Acrylic on canvas
By Vrinda Suresh '21
“Vast, grafted monoculture”
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
2020
Vector drawing and photography
By Vrinda Suresh '21
Germination
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
2018
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
By Isabel Benak '22
Portrait of Queer Person
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
By Aileen Rubio '26
Something You Should Know
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!
2019
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
By Trish Shetty '19
Free Association Portraits
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
By Jamie Seney '21
The Body as Canvas
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
2020
Body Paint on Skin
By Savannah Mohacsi '20
Lassie
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
2019
By Gunner Dongieux '21