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This Too Shall Pass
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
By Jackie Liu '25
Nino
A portrait of a good dog who has traveled a very long way.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Anneke Claypool '21
Tale of Two Cities
I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.
2016
Acrylic on Paper
By Amelia Talkington '22
“Vast, grafted monoculture”
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
2020
Vector drawing and photography
By Vrinda Suresh '21
Photograph of the Campus
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
2018
This is a photo taken in the Main Quad.
By Cuiping Cai '22
The Cabbage Lady
This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.
2020
Digital Art
By Majorca "Jorie" Bateman-Coe '20
Yin and Yang of the Bay
The rising sun in the bay turns typically unaesthetic man-made transmission towers into a beautiful contrast of light and dark.
2020
Photography
By Melissa Boswell '21
Lassie
I painted this painting following the death of my dog. Sourcing imagery from cheap print and Southern nostalgia, Lassie paints a scene of rebirth.
2019
By Gunner Dongieux '21
View from Lower Haight
Colorful shapes of San Francisco buildings are highlighted by a bright sunny day.
2022
Oil paint on canvas
By Christina Kent '22
Il Fait Noir
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
2019
Photograph of Man in Paris
By Charlie Jarvis '19
Koreanthian
Koreanthian is based on merging different architectural styles that transcends geographical, cultural, and historical differences.
2024
Pen & Ink Drawing on Bristol Paper
By Austin Kim '27
Glitch, Beyond the Cracks
This self portrait depicts how your initial view of the world glitches, or shatters as different experiences come with growing up.
2020
Colored pencil
By Tracy Wei '26
Rancho de San Luis, JAL, MX
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
By Kamilah Nicalli Arteaga '22
Death of Chaos
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Digital Visual Art
By Andrew Lesh '19
Tidal Dance ⋆.˚ ☼⋆ ｡ ˙༄.°
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. –Robert Wyland
2023
Digital Media – Made in Procreate for Apple iPad
By Lavinia Pedrollo '28
Crushed
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Hannah Cha '25
19 Self-Care Tips To Try Out
In a knife fight, two versions of me grapple and wrestle for control, but both end up symmetrically and simultaneously triumphant and defeated.
2018
Oil paint on found wood
By Cairo Mo '20
Say Cheese!
This piece depicts how the new digital, photo-sharing era fetishizes Asian women against their will, especially in their traditional attire.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
By Hannah Cha '25