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Art Practice 2026 @aileenrubio.art
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
Link to Website
2018
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 emerged from a desire to merge figurative and abstract forms. (there are some flaws in the .jpg, if needed I can retake pictures)
2015
Acrylic on Canvas
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
2023
ink on rice paper; poetry
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
Paper Maps on Cardboard
History is tied to humanity. There is something heartening about a city that takes pride in its past.
acrylic on canvas
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
2024
Four color Riso print
“the pith” follows an adolescent’s struggle to understand their immigrant mother after their move to America.
Flash Fiction and Digital Illustration
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
Photo
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
Sculpture
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
This 3D, interactive piece represents my relationship with my immigrant other due to the shifting pressures of assimilation.
Interactive 3D animation installation
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.
Mural
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
Photograph/Scanned Image