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Chemical Engineering 2022 @leonardoyu93
It is difficult for humans to accept their own flaws and imperfections. This is a self-portrait displaying my many different tones and personalities.
2017
Acrylic on Paper
Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.
Link to Website
2020
Analog Film
A mother lamb takes gentle care of her newborn.
2019
Oil Paint on Canvas
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
Boulder & Rope
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.
Acrylic on Canvas
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
Photograph
Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.
Pen and Ink
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021
This is a surreal meditation on nature’s comforting power as a sanctuary for people in need of healing.
2022
Pencil on paper
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
I have a series of three paintings showing scenes from 3 places here in USA which caught my eye.
Watercolor
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
Photograph of Man in Paris
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
2024
Video Art (with sound)
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
The Countour of White Sands NP