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Pepsi Cola
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
By Chase Porter '17
Amboseli
Seeing the majestic elephants in Kenya was one of my favorite memories from my trip, and I loved depicting the different textures of the landscape.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Angela Liu '23
Saint of the Bahía
You have pomegranate trees in your backyard, well so do I. Your family can’t afford to live in the Bay Area, well neither can mine…You’re just like me
2024
Oil on canvas
By Aileen Rubio '26
Still I Rise
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life.
Duration: 05:05
2018
Video Art
By Chun Wang '19
Queer Intimacy
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
By Bryan Defjan '24
Firenze
A colorful view of buildings and the sky over Florence (Firenze).
2014
Oil Paint on Canvas
By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
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
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
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
I’m looking at you
The great horned owl is found at Stanford and throughout the Americas and is named for its distinctive ear tufts.
2023
machine embroidery on cotton fabric
By Daniel Richman '27
Desire
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
2020
Oil paint on canvas
By Sophia Siegel '25
Illuminating the Mind
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
By Maia Mosse '20
So Hysterical
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
By Jackie Liu '25
Moonrise
This painting is an interpretation of Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Mysteries of the Horizon,” replacing the men with an aging ballerina.
2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
By Nicola Buskirk '22
Let Her Eat Cake
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
By Brooke Ferber '20
Not Yet
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I try to create a sense of foreboding and discomfort.
2016
Digital Visual Art
By Andrew Lesh '19