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Art Practice 2020 @cat_yng
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
2023
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
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
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
Oil on Canvas
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
Acrylic on Paper
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
Who are our parents before our births? I wanted to use painting to meditate on loss concretized as memory.
2019
Shriram California photos
Digital photographs
This 5-page word-art series explores the way emotion and memory lives in the body through experimentation with colour.
Mixed media (watercolor, charcoal pencils, pencil) on sketch paper
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
2015
Oil on canvas
Using alternative black and white photography techniques, I tried to illustrate the poems of the Persian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri.
2016
Black and White photography
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
Wax Pastel on Wood
Body painting is used to simulate the patient-doctor relationship. Imagery is inspired by anatomy and the model’s bodily experiences.
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2020
Body Paint on Skin
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
Oil Paint 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.
This piece highlights the importance of community and hope in the midst of a pandemic, despite physical separation from others.
Acrylic on Canvas
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
2017
Oil paint and paper on paper
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
Digital Visual Art
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
Photograph
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.
2018