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CSRE 2024 @malavika.kannan
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
This is the place no one would want to miss.
Photo
This painting is in honor of Ahina and all the women that spend years wishing for a day at school.
46″ x 32”
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
Photography
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
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
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
2018
acrylic on canvas
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
Reflective watercolor painting after a trip to Tokyo.
2016
Watercolor
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
Giant ladle meant to represent heaven, a room where everyone figured out that to feed themselves, they have to feed each other. + Harley Quinn’s bat
2023
Wood sculpture, Metal Sculpture. Can also display photos attached instead
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
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.