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Chemistry 2025 @leelaann.art
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
Oil on canvas
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
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
Location: East Asia Library
Digital Illustration
An ongoing series attempting to create an emotive instant through color theory principles
2017
Acrylic on Canvas
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
2020
Watercolor
A gray tabby cat with timeless, marble-like eyes filled with stories to tell and lessons to share sits near a bush, encapsulating the spirit of Paris.
2019
Colored Pencil
This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.
2023
ink on rice paper; poetry
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
The piece is inspired geometric subdivision, tessellations and fractals, fusing representations from Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese symbolisms.
Laser Cut Birchwood
A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.
Wood Sculpture
Pinned parts of a traditional Vietnamese dress cut to my measurements. Through deconstruction, functionality and familiarity are lost.
Charcoal and Mixed Media on Salvaged Cotton and Organza
Koreanthian is based on merging different architectural styles that transcends geographical, cultural, and historical differences.
Pen & Ink Drawing on Bristol Paper
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
2022
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Video Art (with sound)
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Projection Installation
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
Oil paint on found wood