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CSRE 2024 @malavika.kannan
The girl who depicts prosperity is looking beyond her world into one that’s suppressed by indigence, because to solve a problem you must face it.
2017
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
Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.
2018
Digital Rendering
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
Acrylic on Canvas
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Link to Website
2019
Photography
A classic San Francisco house is bathed in orange light at sunset.
2022
Oil paint on panel
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
Oil on Canvas
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
These works were primarily crafted from fashion, science, and interior design magazines ranging from the early 90s to present.
Collage, ink pen
This drawing was an attempt to capture my feelings about Stanford: an intimidating fortress of possibilities.
Markers on paper
A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower
Photograph of nature
Metamorphosis explores queerness as a transformation, as more than just a sexual identity. See http://stanfordmint.com/metamorphosis/ for full article
Studio photography
A three panel survey of a new environment.
Acrylic on Canvas (Three 5ft x 4ft panels) 60 x 144 in
This is the moment when the smallest to the biggest invisibilities came to life, and unity in faith and science was apparent.
2016
Wax Pastel on Wood
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
Machines roar and metal parts clang away in the background in this artwork as an enormous robot is constructed before the eyes of a young spectator.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
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.
2021
This self portrait depicts the artist in self reflection. The couple gazes forward, as hidden collaged images loom behind, reminding them of the past.
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 30 x 40 in
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
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
Photography Series