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Exhibition Pieces
to_love_you_so.jpg |
Title - To Love You So
Medium - Digital
Size - 29.63 x 16.93 cm
Date - September 2022
To Love You So is a digital piece inspired by Alphonse Mucha's Summer. The theme of the piece revolves around love, and not just romantic, but also familial and platonic kinds of love. The flowers in the piece — roses, carnations, heliotropes, honeysuckle, and ivy — represent this theme as well, their meaning relating to love in some way. I wanted to convey this feeling through the use of warm tones and having cooler ones to contrast and balance the piece.
Medium - Digital
Size - 29.63 x 16.93 cm
Date - September 2022
To Love You So is a digital piece inspired by Alphonse Mucha's Summer. The theme of the piece revolves around love, and not just romantic, but also familial and platonic kinds of love. The flowers in the piece — roses, carnations, heliotropes, honeysuckle, and ivy — represent this theme as well, their meaning relating to love in some way. I wanted to convey this feeling through the use of warm tones and having cooler ones to contrast and balance the piece.
for_everything.jpg |
Title - For Everything
Medium - Found object
Size - 27.305 x 27.305 cm
Date - September 2022
Inspired by Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, my work For Everything is about being grateful for the memories a family member has given me, despite his passing. I wanted to show the joy of memories, particularly childhood ones, through the idea of a shadowbox that contains some toys that we used to play with and symbols that represent that joy. And while losing someone is traumatic, I also wanted to convey remembering someone for how they lived and what they gave you, and not how they died.
Medium - Found object
Size - 27.305 x 27.305 cm
Date - September 2022
Inspired by Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, my work For Everything is about being grateful for the memories a family member has given me, despite his passing. I wanted to show the joy of memories, particularly childhood ones, through the idea of a shadowbox that contains some toys that we used to play with and symbols that represent that joy. And while losing someone is traumatic, I also wanted to convey remembering someone for how they lived and what they gave you, and not how they died.
promotion.jpg |
Title - Promotion
Medium - Digital
Size - 60.85 x 52.91 cm
Date - October 2022
Promotion is a piece focusing on envy, the style inspired by the works of Aleksander Rostov. I decided to represent this through the use of greens, with bright red to contrast. The story of the work is a man named Lee who murders his boss, seeing him as a symbol of something he wants: happiness. As someone who's worked hard and not achieved what he's wanted most, yet finding that in his cruel and affluent boss, Lee takes his frustrations out on him. There's a sense of victory in his boss' death.
Medium - Digital
Size - 60.85 x 52.91 cm
Date - October 2022
Promotion is a piece focusing on envy, the style inspired by the works of Aleksander Rostov. I decided to represent this through the use of greens, with bright red to contrast. The story of the work is a man named Lee who murders his boss, seeing him as a symbol of something he wants: happiness. As someone who's worked hard and not achieved what he's wanted most, yet finding that in his cruel and affluent boss, Lee takes his frustrations out on him. There's a sense of victory in his boss' death.
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Title - A Premonition
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 29.63 cm
Date - November 2022
A Premonition is, as its title says, a feeling that something bad is about to happen. I wanted to portray that emotion of discontent, not knowing what will happen but dreading it all the same. Inspired by Alan Stephens Foster's The Fall and the ideas of the symbolism movement, a shadowy figure clings to the man, a sort of warning for the storm brewing in the distance. The storm itself represents that anxiety, surrounding the man as he waits for something to happen — to figure out what will occur.
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 29.63 cm
Date - November 2022
A Premonition is, as its title says, a feeling that something bad is about to happen. I wanted to portray that emotion of discontent, not knowing what will happen but dreading it all the same. Inspired by Alan Stephens Foster's The Fall and the ideas of the symbolism movement, a shadowy figure clings to the man, a sort of warning for the storm brewing in the distance. The storm itself represents that anxiety, surrounding the man as he waits for something to happen — to figure out what will occur.
comfort.jpg |
Title - Comfort
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 21.16 cm
Date - December 2022
Comfort is a piece inspired by Nicholas Roerich's Star of the Hero, and features a subject of a previous work. I was inspired by Roerich's color palette in his piece and the mood he invokes through his landscape. The work, as the title says, focuses around comfort and having a moment of peace. I wanted to express this meaning through the beauty of nature and the quiet of nighttime. The character leans on a porch post, gazing to the mountains in the distance and the shooting star in the sky.
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 21.16 cm
Date - December 2022
Comfort is a piece inspired by Nicholas Roerich's Star of the Hero, and features a subject of a previous work. I was inspired by Roerich's color palette in his piece and the mood he invokes through his landscape. The work, as the title says, focuses around comfort and having a moment of peace. I wanted to express this meaning through the beauty of nature and the quiet of nighttime. The character leans on a porch post, gazing to the mountains in the distance and the shooting star in the sky.
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Title - One Sunny Day
Medium - Acrylic paint on canvas
Size - 91.44 x 91.44 cm
Date - May 2022
One Sunny Day is a self-portrait piece inspired by Impressionist artist Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol. While Monet paints a sunny scene with his wife and son as the subjects in his work, I've chosen to make the only subject me. The painting depicts myself taking a walk in a field, and was meant to sort of emulate a spring memory. As the painting reminded me of nostalgic days, I intended to try and convey that same warmth Monet does, through the use of bright and contrasting colors.
Medium - Acrylic paint on canvas
Size - 91.44 x 91.44 cm
Date - May 2022
One Sunny Day is a self-portrait piece inspired by Impressionist artist Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol. While Monet paints a sunny scene with his wife and son as the subjects in his work, I've chosen to make the only subject me. The painting depicts myself taking a walk in a field, and was meant to sort of emulate a spring memory. As the painting reminded me of nostalgic days, I intended to try and convey that same warmth Monet does, through the use of bright and contrasting colors.
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Title - I Needed You Most
Medium - Digital
Size - 14.51 cm x 10.88 cm
Date - August 2022
I Needed You Most is about a woman who kills her uncle. The piece is inspired by Rene Magritte's The False Mirror, surrealism, and Q Hayashida's style, using only shades of gray, white, black, and red for the colors. The main intention of the work is to portray anger, yet a certain grief at severing a bond with a family member who was supposed to love you yet has left only hurt. The eye in the background shows shattered bits of memories, a window to the events that have occurred to this character.
Medium - Digital
Size - 14.51 cm x 10.88 cm
Date - August 2022
I Needed You Most is about a woman who kills her uncle. The piece is inspired by Rene Magritte's The False Mirror, surrealism, and Q Hayashida's style, using only shades of gray, white, black, and red for the colors. The main intention of the work is to portray anger, yet a certain grief at severing a bond with a family member who was supposed to love you yet has left only hurt. The eye in the background shows shattered bits of memories, a window to the events that have occurred to this character.
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Title - For Whose Sake
Medium - Block print
Size - 30.5 cm x 22.8 cm
Date - September 2021
For Whose Sake is a block print piece about grief and the sacrifice of a loved one, focusing on a knight and the one he loves most. My print was inspired by artist Käthe Kollwitz for her use of shading and themes of grief, as well as Frans Masereel for how he tells a narrative in his art without the need of text to explain. The knight questions whether if the sacrifice was for his or his loved one's sake, or if the action he took was one that meant nothing.
Medium - Block print
Size - 30.5 cm x 22.8 cm
Date - September 2021
For Whose Sake is a block print piece about grief and the sacrifice of a loved one, focusing on a knight and the one he loves most. My print was inspired by artist Käthe Kollwitz for her use of shading and themes of grief, as well as Frans Masereel for how he tells a narrative in his art without the need of text to explain. The knight questions whether if the sacrifice was for his or his loved one's sake, or if the action he took was one that meant nothing.
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Title - Retreat
Medium - Digital
Size - 21.77 cm x 14.51 cm
Date - August 2022
Retreat is a digital painting inspired by JMW Turner's The Slave Ship and the Romanticism movement. It depicts a still sunset at the top, and a chaotic underwater scene. The message behind this piece is about conformity, society's values, and the depth of the sea showing a more alive world that may be chaotic, but comforting to the figure, who's meant to represent those who feel like they have to always act differently in order to protect themselves.
Medium - Digital
Size - 21.77 cm x 14.51 cm
Date - August 2022
Retreat is a digital painting inspired by JMW Turner's The Slave Ship and the Romanticism movement. It depicts a still sunset at the top, and a chaotic underwater scene. The message behind this piece is about conformity, society's values, and the depth of the sea showing a more alive world that may be chaotic, but comforting to the figure, who's meant to represent those who feel like they have to always act differently in order to protect themselves.
home_sweet_home.jpg |
Title - Home Sweet Home
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 21.16 cm
Date - March 2022
Home Sweet Home is about how a safe place, most often a home, can become terrifying after a traumatic event. This work was partially personal to me in its meaning. Inspired by Trevor Henderson's work, the piece includes a looming figure, hands reaching out towards the man as a representation of this fear. That fear haunts him as he looks at photographs of a time before that event, of a person he lost.
Medium - Digital
Size - 16.93 x 21.16 cm
Date - March 2022
Home Sweet Home is about how a safe place, most often a home, can become terrifying after a traumatic event. This work was partially personal to me in its meaning. Inspired by Trevor Henderson's work, the piece includes a looming figure, hands reaching out towards the man as a representation of this fear. That fear haunts him as he looks at photographs of a time before that event, of a person he lost.
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Title - Something to Remember
Medium - Illustration
Size - 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm
Date - April 2022
Something to Remember is about connection and disconnect, transforming Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene by Simeon Solomon and The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci to the modern day. Sappho and Erinna represent that personal connection, love, while Jesus and his disciples depict an argument at a family dinner, Jesus "tuning out" the faces of the others. Their faces are blank to further emphasize that, and to bring the viewer's focus to Jesus as the central figure.
Medium - Illustration
Size - 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm
Date - April 2022
Something to Remember is about connection and disconnect, transforming Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene by Simeon Solomon and The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci to the modern day. Sappho and Erinna represent that personal connection, love, while Jesus and his disciples depict an argument at a family dinner, Jesus "tuning out" the faces of the others. Their faces are blank to further emphasize that, and to bring the viewer's focus to Jesus as the central figure.