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How Small Are We?
Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling
2020
acrylic on cardboard
By Helena Zhang '22
Light Shower
A light spring shower wakes the soul.
Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
2019
Photoshop
By Tianxing Ma '19
Gotham (Lower East Side, New York City)
every part of this earth is a surrogate for the people that helped create iteach building reflects the community that built it
2018
Acrylic on Canvas
By Vedika Kanchan '23
Germination
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
2018
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
By Isabel Benak '22
Rancho de San Luis, JAL, MX
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
I Am Home
This portrait portrays a friend overlaid and entangled in the swamps of Louisiana near NOLA — her home.
2017
Oil on Canvas
By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
Portrait of a Glass, Empty (2020); Barriers (2021)
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
2021
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
By Vrinda Suresh '21
Soldier I
This work is based off of a found photo archive of World War I era battle photographs. It is from a series that investigates the role of the soldier.
2016
Acrylic, charcoal, and india ink on paper
By Ali Vaughan '19
Desire
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
By Sophia Siegel '25
untitled (screen painting)
A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.
2018
window screens, oil paint
By Vivienne Le '19
Quarantine Paintings
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
By Katie Han '23
Coronavirus, Capitalism, and Connectivity: Monochroming what was once in Colour
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
2020
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
By Crystal Chen '22
Girl, Boy, Beautiful
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
2019
Photograph/Scanned Image
By Jacqueline Garcia Peraza '21
A Matter of Time
A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.
2019
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Where Language Begins and Does Not End
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
2018
acrylic and mixed media
By Syd Westley '21
Portrait of Queer Person
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
By Aileen Rubio '26
Mourning Window
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
By Noah DeWald '20
Figure 57
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
By Noah DeWald '20