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Art Practice 2026 @aileenrubio.art
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
2018
Markers on paper
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
Link to Website
2021
Photography
Girl has a moment of clarity when her head is in the clouds.
Photoshop
I painted a woman who is battered but is pushing herself back up with resiliency. She sends a message of hope to those facing difficulties.
2017
acrylic on wood
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
2022
Interactive Digital Work
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Digital Visual Art
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
Oil paint on panel
A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.
Mixed Media
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
2019
Blender 3D render
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
2023
Art book
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
Digital 3D Render
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
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
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Watercolor on Paper
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
2024
Video Art
A collage with the background of a digital re-illustration of Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa to portray our poor disregard and care of Earth.
Digital illustration and collage
This drawing shows the harsh lines of a cityscape being consumed by organic forms, suggesting that, try as we might, we cannot overpower nature.
Ink on Paper