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Pars pro Toto (Alicja Kwade, 2021), a new art installation on Stanford’s Science and Engineering Quad, reaches for the cosmos while staying grounded in the geological history of our planet.

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Truth

I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.

2018

Acrylic paint on canvas

By Nicola Buskirk '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
Childhood Silence

This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.

2016

acrylic on canvas

By Helena Zhang '22
The Claw

Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza
Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.

2020

Digital Illustration

By Helen He '23
She’ll make it.

Silhouette of a black woman, breathing her way through.

2020

Acrylic on Canvas

By Brandi Ransom '23
Figure 57

This artwork examines the place of genetically modified organisms in modern society and how we view them, blurring the line between item and organism.

2014

fine-tip pen and watercolor on paper

By Noah DeWald '20
After Class Hours

Inspired by Stanford’s Romanesque architecture and towering palm trees, I wanted to capture the university’s vibrant energy and beauty.

2019

Digital Illustration

By Helen He '23
After Class Hours
Hand over hand

Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.

2015

Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.

By Maia Mosse '20
Julia Fern

This drawing is a representation of a fractal called a Julia set, which has been rendered out of plants and other organic elements.

2018

Markers on paper

By Alejandro Poler '19
What We Build

Machines roar and metal parts clang away in the background in this artwork as an enormous robot is constructed before the eyes of a young spectator.

2019

Adobe Photoshop Illustration

By Helen He '23
Creative limitation

Growing up in Iran taught me that limitation breed creativity. I tried to embody the same lesson by using alternative printing methods in the darkroom

2016

Black & white photography

By Soraya Fereydooni '20
Banjo

A portrait of a good dog.

2020

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Anneke Claypool '21
Maasai Warriors

I loved this photograph my mom took on our trip to Kenya, and I wanted to recreate the beautiful designs on the fabric here.

2016

Charcoal

By Angela Liu '23
Urban Constellations

San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.

2022

Oil paint on panel

By Christina Kent '22
Ebb

This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.

2016

Color Film

By Chase Porter '17
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
Divination Is In Our Hands Now

Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.

2018

Digital Photographs

By Kevin Chappelle '19
bite back

A realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.

2018

Oil paint on canvas

By Cairo Mo '20
Yanofsky’s Legacy

Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.

2018

Photograph

By Suzanne Ou '23
Ocean View

Girl meets whale.

2017

Digital Illustration

By Helen He '23
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