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Sonic Ovum
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink.
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2020
colored pencil, poetry
By Sam Howell Petersen '23
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
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
Train Wreck
I use this artwork to ask, “What has become of our childhood innocence?”
2019
ink on paper, collage
By Helena Zhang '22
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
A Moment at the Louvre
This is a painting of inception as an artist recreates a Delacroix masterpiece, “The Death of Sardanapalus” with a little boy looking up in awe.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Headdress girl
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
By Elizabeth Hyde '20
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
Clout Chaser
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Hannah Cha '25
Art Library
This photo was taken in the McMurty Art Building. I used black paint in photoshop to highlight the lights and computer.
2016
Digital Photograph
By Connor Gilmore '21
Flavors of Friendship
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
2024
Gouache on Paper
By Arethea Lim '24
Ocean Beach Poppies
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
By Christina Kent '22
Into the Mist
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Untitled
A close-up, multi-colored rendering of Eppendorf tubes illustrates that Lab Life is not as monochromatic as it appears.
2019
Oil paint on Canvas
By Mackenzie Carlson '23
Untitled
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
2017
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Meg McNulty '20
Breaking Point
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.
2020
Boulder & Rope
By Paige Warmington '22
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