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Water City
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
2020
Digital painting
By Catherine Mullings '22
Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery!
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
2017
Ink and print on wood
By Olivia Popp '20
Moss Landing
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
2017
Watercolor and Pencil
By Alberto Arvayo '18
bubbleUp
The central focus of these prints is the vibrant potato starch granule depicted under polarized light and how its shape and colors are manipulated.
2023
Algorithmic Art made with Processing
By Krystal Li '26
Untitled
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
By Delaney Rua '20
Main Quad Blues
Original cover art for the Stanford Daily’s Vol. 257 autumn quarter issue.
2019
Digital Illustration
By Helen He '23
Self-Portrait Mask
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
2020
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
By Phoebe Kimm '20
Life Like Weeds nos. 2 & 3… Archimedean Solids or The Passage from Virgin to Bride… Eternal Sunshine or The Bride Laid Upon the Altar… In Fifteen Minutes Everyone Will Be Famous
These works were primarily crafted from fashion, science, and interior design magazines ranging from the early 90s to present.
2019
Collage, ink pen
By Kyle Cromer '20
Golfing on a Grassy Ground
This is a photograph taken of me practicing golf! I particularly enjoy the lighting and the visual interplay between the golf ball and the clubface.
2018
Photograph of Athletics
By Christian Ostberg '20
pink pink pink pink pink moon
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
By Cairo Mo '20
The claw (updated)
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
By Lining Sun '18
Train Wreck
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
By Helena Zhang '22
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
Limitless World
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
2018
Acrylic on canvas
By Mikaela Berkeley '20
Utopia No. 1
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
2018
Paper Maps on Cardboard
By Elias Gálvez-Arango '
Doorway to Stanford
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint
By Tyler Su '20
It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight
I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.
2015
Digital Photograph
By Cora Cliburn '19