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Art Practice 2026 @aileenrubio.art
This is about alienation and emotional expression as a stone, cold figure looks blankly to a wall of artificial expressions in a room.
2021
Digital 3D Render
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
I made these photos at the abandoned Oppenheimer film set in Ghost Ranch, NM. Downwinders in NM harmed by test radiation remain uncompensated by RECA.
2023
35mm Photography
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.
2020
Digital Illustration
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
Girl meets whale.
It’s a shame if you did not get around time to see Hoover Tower in different lights.
2018
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
This piece is a self-portrait that puts emphasis on gaze and light to convey a subject that is emerging from the shadows.
Oil Paint on Canvas
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.
Art book
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
2016
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
Oil paint on panel
Location: East Asia Library