Kezia Abraham
Whale Breach
I had taken a trip with my family and on that trip, we went whale watching and saw many whales breaching the surface. I thought that was truly inspiring, and after seeing an abstract color palette that I liked, I decided to recreate it. I exaggerated the sprays of water into the air so that the strength and force of whale would be obvious, emphasizing its power. At the same time, I wanted the whale to be the centerpiece, so I made sure to focus on the whale and make it shine to its best ability.
Kelsea Barnett
Love or Lust?
This artwork is about the troubles in figuring out who or what you want to be. It also talks about relationships and the heartbreak that comes with. Sometimes a relationship is based solely off attraction rather than feeling. I wanted this work to portray the overthinking and panic that comes with the realization of unrequited love.
Alexander Bereck
The Miles Kid
This work is part of a series I have been working on for the past year, where I create portraits of performance artists with the idea that the composition should make me feel as I would observing their performance. This work in particular features what may seem to be a nonsensical quote but is symbolic of how words can be misinterpreted in such a loud setting. After a pair of friends get tired of repeating themselves and shouting “what”, they say, “never mind” and go back to watching the performance. I miss moments like that, unimportant until they are gone.
Jane Boyland
Curfew
In this image, I am exploring an aspect of sheltering. I wanted to capture the idea of being sheltered with respect to having a curfew. I intended for the viewer to see a father figure waiting for his child to come home. I did a transfer onto a map to portray the idea that the child could be anywhere. I used a map of Palm Beach to give the image a local feel and an aspect of my own personal connection.
Caelan Brindise
Masked Identity
I chose to represent the way communication has changed over the course of the last year. People are having to rely on more eye cues and unspoken means of communication, which has proven difficult with a mask. I wanted to show different facial expressions and how they can be contorted and interpreted differently with a mask on. For this piece, I transferred my images onto a white piece of cloth. I then sewed the mask myself and folded different aspects of the face I wanted to be concealed to capture my overall vision.
Stephanie Cabrera
Machines and Fashion
I have always been interested in vintage items, such as clothing and cars. I wanted to incorporate those two things into this piece. I decided to connect the idea of sewing machines and cars. By making the cars out of cloth it referenced the idea of fashion. I was inspired by old gas stations and old newspapers and magazines from the early 1900's. I used the old newspapers and magazines to create the shapes and forms of an old gas station/sewing machine.
Tristan Carvajal
Untitled
My collage is meant to represent power and love. The background is a scuba diver making it seem as if we are underwater. The cowboy with “The Power of Potential” covering his eyes is supposed to represent strength and potential. The altimeter is meant to resemble him floating to the top and succession.
Tristan Carvajal
Untitled
My collage is meant to represent power and love. The background is a scuba diver making it seem as if we are underwater. The cowboy with “The Power of Potential” covering his eyes is supposed to represent strength and potential. The altimeter is meant to resemble him floating to the top and succession.
Kenflore Charles
Birth of an Idea
In my opinion, the coolest detail about my artwork is that the bulb looks 3-D. I included the drawing of a tree, and someone playing piano, with some people who live there, in the lightbulb, too. What inspired me to make this art was that I like to play the piano in summer next to a tree, when I can see the sky full of stars, the leaves of the tree are moving, the wind blows, and the bird’s fly. As I play my favorite song, it all makes me feel like I am in heaven.
Lashowndra Charles
Black Girl Magic
The title is based on what was happening a few months ago regarding the BLM movement. The flowers represent women. If anyone has to compare women with one thing it would be flowers because we are beautiful, not only black women but all women who live in this world.
Jaclyn Cohen
Idolatry (Pink Pigeons)
This body of work is representative of my personal connection to nature, and how I feel that emotions can be reflected through the growth of the Earth. In each piece, an aspect of nature- such as the branch, flowers, and birds- emerges from or replaces a part of the human body to symbolize how the environment is both an intrinsic characteristic to being human and how it can express what is internal, externally. Each of my pieces are thus inspired by this belief, that the outer natural world is an innate quality of the self and that people share a bond with all living things because we have surfaced from the Earth and will one day return to it.
Jaclyn Cohen
Idolatry (Pink Pigeons), Unearth, Emergence/Recession
This body of work is representative of my personal connection to nature, and how I feel that emotions can be reflected through the growth of the Earth. In each piece, an aspect of nature- such as the branch, flowers, and birds- emerges from or replaces a part of the human body to symbolize how the environment is both an intrinsic characteristic to being human and how it can express what is internal, externally. Each of my pieces are thus inspired by this belief, that the outer natural world is an innate quality of the self and that people share a bond with all living things because we have surfaced from the Earth and will one day return to it.
Ella Condon
Flowers of the Sun
I chose this design because I am inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe and her powerful impact on society. Her activism and her art. I really enjoyed making this piece because of its intricacy and my determination to finish it. I am proud of it and I hope you enjoy it.
Kiara Dennis
The Final Form
The perspective on my work was to display vivid images to show transformation in life. I decided to take it a step forward and make my model into a fairy as they are like butterflies, which was my way of showing transformation in life and how beautiful it really is.
Demi den Bakker
Deception of the eye
This collage was made using a digital photo and wallpaper cut-outs. The intention is to contrast reality and illusion. The natural elements are combined with the cut-out representative animals and natural elements. It gives the illusion of depth in the photo by seeing the overlapping of the cutouts and specific placements of the flowers, lizard, and frog.
Jillian Dickens
Zoning out
My art normally portrays how while I make it, if I make art over multiple days, I need to listen to music to put me back into the state I was when first working. For this piece I started on the face first with more of an emotionless look for when I lose my concentration. After the head was finished, I worked on the background as an expression of how I feel while zoned out and how fast my mind wonders. Lastly the different colors and shapes are like my thoughts with how random they can be with consistent patterns.
Jackson Domenico
Headache
This artwork includes many elements of my growth process as an emerging artist. It is the culmination of a multitude of aspects from past works.
Madelyn Domnick
Untitled
In my piece I was inspired by the Surrealism movement and Greek mythology to show the ways death is represented. I used the chickens to show death as sustenance to others, the corpse as the graphicness of death, the falling person as a symbol for Icarus to represent the feeling of loss and freedom that comes with death, and the cutout of Charos to show how death is the end destination. I used melted wax to help further convey this by creating a blood-like look and to show how Icarus lost his life.
Anne Dorval
Personal Journal
For this assignment I decided to go all out. When I didn’t know what to do, I just started sketching things that I’d sketch when I’m bored. I chose to draw a book to show that this is a chapter of my little art journey. And the writing on the outside are lyrics from a song that are written in a language that I made when I was in 6th grade. I also decide to make it a bit messy to show that I’m not afraid to try stuff.
Soley Eggers
A Deeper Look In
What do others see when they look at you? Do they see what you see? Do you see what they see? A Deeper Look In, gets a glimpse into what others see when they look at me. Am I portraying myself as the person I know myself as? I wanted to do a deep investigation within myself to find out how I appear to others, and how others view me. To do this, I studied myself from different angles from my perspective and other’s perspectives and replicated what I think they see. I created this image through the medium of multiple layers of cardboard, to create a replica of the person others see.
Ravia Facey
Classes for COVID
We are to learn, regardless of the situation at hand. Despite this pandemic, we are still provided with the knowledge and classes we need to get through this together.
Ana Flick
A Heart-y Meal
This piece is part of a series on famous serial killers. It features and dives into the peculiar nature of their crimes that led to their rise to infamy. Jeffery Dahmer was a killer who specifically killed to consume, in other words, cannibalism. The use of collage and eerie imagery brings to light the gruesome nature of his crimes through an artistic lens.
Ana Flick
Married to the Money
This piece is part of a series on famous serial killers. It features and dives into the peculiar nature of their crimes that led to their rise to infamy. Belle Gunness was a female serial killer from Norway. She would invite possible rich suitors to her farm to either invest in the farm or to marry. When they would arrive, she would kill them and take their money. The use of collage and eerie imagery brings to light the gruesome nature of her crimes through an artistic lens.
Ana Gonzalez
Hero
What I was thinking when I made my collage was how the world is right now with the pandemic going on and fighting for equality. Adding the words, I used like “Hero” and “Fighting Against” was motioned to the people that are helping us go through this pandemic and fighting for equality.
Meghan Heilpern
Time
As time has gone by, our environment has progressively declined due to our constant and reckless usage of the natural resources our world provides us that we should treasure. Our constant need for new things has driven our world into deterioration, like global warming. In this piece, I used old magazines and plastic bags to upcycle materials and to show that you can both spread awareness and take part in recycling these products that have driven our environment into this degrading state.
Oren Hentschke
The Fool, The Cunning, The Lucky, and The Sophisticated
The whole piece is a poker game, something that has been a constant in my life. Near each hand is an item that represents it; the 7 on the pocket 9's, the fancy sports car on the fool who is betting with the worst hand, the cigarettes and watch on the cunning's hand which is the winning hand, and the man in a suit on the sophisticated hand.
Donovan J. Ingraham
154
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,
Consum’d with that which it was nourished by .- Sonnet 73
Using the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare as a guide, I took a beloved shot of mine and digitally altered it. Each still in the video is a sonnet added into the shot with a digital manipulation technique known as datamoshing, where you alter a photograph’s data with a text editor. In the place where code was, a Shakespearan sonnet lays in each photograph.
Donovan J. Ingraham
154
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,
Consum’d with that which it was nourished by .- Sonnet 73
Using the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare as a guide, I took a beloved shot of mine and digitally altered it. Each still in the video is a sonnet added into the shot with a digital manipulation technique known as datamoshing, where you alter a photograph’s data with a text editor. In the place where code was, a Shakespearan sonnet lays in each photograph.
Yumin Jang
The Buddha's World
After doing research on some mythologically related subjects I found something about divine earth gods and the buddha. I began to wonder what they would look like mixed in an artwork. I created a simple collage with lots of pasted pieces of paper. The idea of having the Buddha in space with the earth in its hand was something I heard from the famous Chinese literature “The Monkey King". The Monkey King caused so much trouble in both the mortal realm and the heaven kingdom that Buddha made a bet with the Monkey King who lost and ended up being trapped under his hand making the "Five Finger Mountain". Putting the Asian temple on Buddha's head like a hat was my creative solution to enhance the Asian cultural element of the work.
Kate Jeffcott
Anemoia I
I have long been inspired by the vintage view of the future. The World's Fair's most brilliant minds coming together to create an image of the future was a large inspiration behind this piece. I wanted to pull from a bold and mystic aesthetic of a vintage view of a futuristic world by blending both historical photos and an atmospheric vintage-stylization illustration of space.
Payten Jenkins
Homage to Louise
I created an assemblage based on the work of Louise Nevelson. I used a variety of Found and readymade objects, manufactured and natural. I then Unified the piece by using a Nevelson Technique, by painting the entire piece one color. Since she typically used black and white, I chose to use a red magenta because of the beads and shells. I feel it makes it uniquely my own, while paying Homage to Louise Nevelson.
Daniel Jose Juan
Untitled
The man is all happy with the balloon in his hand and the Death is behind him. Nobody knows where the death is.
Dashka Julien
Keep Feelin’ Yourself!
Femininity: Does not come in one size. Does not come in one color. Does not come in one shape. The key to femininity is to be yourself. Do not look to a leader to lead you but be the QUEEN you were meant to be. And keep feelin’ yourself!
Danielle Lancaster
One in the Same
In this photo, I am exploring the impact of immigrants on the community. Immigrants consistently do jobs around the community and contribute to the economy but are consistently scapegoated. I wanted to make sure that the photo was taken inside the workplace of the man to show his contribution to society. The setting of the photo was important to me, for it is the basis of the topic. I transferred the photo onto a wooden pizza paddle to highlight the setting even more and make the image more two-dimensional.
Kevin Landry
Man in the Mirror of American Society
When looking upon society, there is the accumulation of cultures in a society that creates whom an individual becomes throughout their lifetime. By using snippets of different Iconic pop culture icons, it adds up to what makes an individual's identity. Additionally, I was inspired by American culture and how heavily it has influenced my own personality, identity, and music taste.
Natalie Macadar
Axels
Focusing my art on street culture and my friends, I like to capture moments whether they're memorable or simply pretty. I take my camera everywhere I go because you never know when a beautiful scene will unveil itself. Recently, I've taken my photos and created collages with them, which is very fun for me, because it allows me to make one work of multiple moments. This collage is one of my close friends, and that represents my art very much because I just use the people around me to model. This makes my art feel personal.
Trinity Macaluso
Necklace
This piece was part of a larger series I did, which surrounded the notion that a person exists in part, as an accumulation of different events from their life, or people they have interacted with. I used collage here to reflect this sort of collective, assembled sort of atmosphere. The paper bead necklace represents carrying around experiences, and what is inside of them.
Olivia Martinez
Broken
I used my piece to display career ending injuries for professional athletes. I feel that most people miss the great toll that it takes on an athlete and how greatly it changes their way of life.
Emily Martinova
Galaxy
I was trying to think of something with contrast, something that can have cool details, and something big so I thought why not part of our solar system.
Anahaika Mauvais
Blind joy
While going through life I have realized, the only person who can truly rob you of your happiness tends to be the main host, ourselves. The simplistic butterflies and mushrooms coming into frame representing simple joy in life. While the person is dazed and too engrossed in another source of joy. Also showing no matter who you are you can find the beauty in life and you, yourself will have to decide if you indulgence in it.
Virginia McGrail
Pieces of Me
I sourced scraps from magazines, chose my favorite selfie, and lightly sketched my most prominent features. I then proceeded to paste magazine cutouts to my sketch. To create distinction, I used dark thin strips on my jawline and nose. Since my hair has unique shades, I used my mom’s Wine Spectator magazines to add color and texture, which made for silky waves. For the background, I used blue, a simple color, with a plethora of natural occurrences. I was inspired by the opposite kinds of weather, the warm blues of the beach, and the frosty blues of the mountains. I also incorporated simple patterns to move the eye.
Rebekkah Merkel
In Pieces
This is a self-portrait collage made from cut up pieces of magazines. This project was a challenge that helped me better understand the use of shadows and highlights. Instead of struggling on sketching, I had to focus on getting the right colors, and details for the portrait. Because of Covid-19, masks were worn while doing this, meaning I only glanced at my face for reference. There are details of the collage that are not exact to my face, but those imperfections show some of the struggles that this project produced for me. The imperfections also symbolize the uniqueness and complexity of humans and their nature.
Ana Miguel Ramirez
Feathered Friends
The reason why there are flowers and butterflies in my artwork, “Fine Feathered Friends,” is because I am a person that really has love for flowers and nature in general. My love for flowers and nature helped inspire this piece of art. Instead of flower petals, I put a butterfly on the stem of the flower to make the butterflies the flower petals, so it looks like a butterfly-flower and I decided to make the feathers be the leaves that are on the vines. I wanted my art to look like it is all connected and flowy so that is why the feather vines come down to the butterfly flowers. I really love how it all turned out, and I just love how it includes nature in a way that is surreal. I wanted people to see nature from a different point of view.
Samuel Munley
Darken Sunset
This is a black and white sunset made with pen and paper using many different patterns.
Evelyn Murray
Inner Reflection
The idea that the body you look at in the mirror is not really you, but rather the vessel that you (the brain) are inside of is one that has recently been occupying my mind. Or myself. This piece is the exploration of that idea on the muscular system, since the mechanical nature of tendons and ligaments reminded me of the well-crafted workings of puppets, and to me the body we inhabit is simply a puppet for the brain. I decided to use different materials to show the dissonance of muscle and flesh.
Ortiz Wuendy
Climbing the Stairs of Success
A few days before the assignment was due, I’m thinking about the past days I had which were stressing. I was at a low point where I couldn’t finish any of my work, but I wanted to show what I was feeling into the collage. Art is one of the few things in which I can relax and feel at home so when I was doing the collage, I felt happy. What I came up with was a woman who was coming home from a long day of work and her feelings morphed into a monster who constantly told her she was not good enough. That she was lazy and could’ve tried harder. I hear that quite a few times from my own thoughts and it drains me. It’s like your own thoughts are controlling you and you over think, and you grow tired of everything. And the next day it’s the same. The same thoughts drown you, so you constantly must tell yourself that you’re good enough. But it is okay because tomorrow is another day so we shouldn’t give up so easily! We are human after all and one day happiness will come soon. Life goes on.
Lilian Palagye
Party time
Due to covid going to parties is limited so I thought why not make a piece of artwork related to parties. Having a piece of artwork look like a party on paper can bring joy to people when they look at it. It is nothing like other piece of art it is very abstract and filled with color. Every color contrasts the other color as every color is pastel with some silver black and gold pieces.
Simryn Patel
Falling Food
In my piece, I was inspired by the movement of surrealism and the idea of being out of this world. The falling food portrays the absurdity of this other world, and the misty, blue sky has a dream-like look. I tore up pieces of paper for the road to show this world crumbling under the expensive cars. My piece shows that being materialistic (with the expensive cars) is selfish compared to thinking about the world.
Dhirey Penaloza Vivar
I dream of you in colors
Leaving Peru at a young age left me daydreaming and romanticizing my hometown, Huancayo. In this way Huancayo appears colorful and vibrant, however I live with the reality of feeling unfamiliar and disconnected to my birthplace as my heart is untouched, unable to fully immerse itself in its colors.
Dhirey Penaloza Vivar
Where are you from?
When asked “where are you from?” My answer often develops into telling my life story to find that answer myself. In this way, I wanted to represent my life story visually as I carry the weaved suitcase around me onto my next destination. Thus, the left side represents the beginning of my childhood as I left Peru at age three, while the right side represents my journey of finding who I am today.
Mara Popa
Soar
My short film, Soar, was meant from the beginning to be a metaphor for what these past two years have brought forth to a lot of people who miss the times before the virus: isolation. In the case of the main vulture character of Soar, the experience of social separation comes to mind. The vultures in the air are presented as the foil to the main character, and the protagonist in turn feels as though they miss out on a chance they had not so much as seen a glimpse of before they had the realization that they were, in fact, alone. At the very end, in the concluding scene, these interpretations are made less superficial and the reveal of the fossils leading from a similar species to the main characters to a bird in flight subvert expectations and spark a hope that the audience is aware of- it’s just that the protagonist is not. I suppose we can hope this much is true for the current pandemic and the bigger picture reveals a chance for us to recover from the isolation... and to soar. I made this concept and produced it as an original idea.
Andrea Posada
Self-Love
In my work, I wanted to show self-love and self-appreciation. I used a self-portrait and added wings to signify how self-love can make you feel free and empowered. I also added different elements and a color palette that would give you aesthetic vibes to the picture.
Sydney Schiff
Colors of Quarantine
I was inspired by the classic Roman mosaics in my artwork, since they focused on keeping the artwork balanced with a sense of realism. I also wanted to portray the real characteristics of my face and still have depth and meaning in my piece, without any shallow features. My main goal was to translate my exact features onto the paper and keep the geometric structure of a mosaic; As well as keeping the artwork whimsical with a natural glow. I think that this piece is my style of artwork because it portrays all the aspects of luminance and proper composition.
Erica Schreiber
Vessel
The idea that the body you look at in the mirror isn’t really you, but rather the vessel that you (the brain) are inside of is one that has recently been occupying my mind. Or myself. This piece is the exploration of that idea on the muscular system, since the mechanical nature of tendons and ligaments reminded me of the well-crafted workings of puppets, and to me the body we inhabit is simply a puppet for the brain. I decided to use different materials to show the dissonance of muscle and flesh.
Alexandra Scott
माया , MAYA
This artwork is inspired by the cultural elements of Nepal, which is where my close friend, the girl in the center is from. I wanted to create a collage that would reflect on a person's heritage and the story that lives inside every individual. I created a background, middle ground, and foreground using different kinds of paper to distinguish each layer similar to the way that chapters of a story or events in history are separately unique. The process of putting this piece together was enlightening and a cumulative experience.
Aidan Sieger
Past’s Release and Future’s Grasp
As we move on in life, we have to choose what we let go of and pass down to the new generations. The hand in my artwork represents the person who must decide if they want to get rid of or keep their desired possessions. The string represents their attachment towards those said possessions. The scissors are used by the person to sever their connection to the objects. The painted nails are an homage to the 45th Super Sentai series, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, a Japanese Tokusatsu television drama.
Sophia Smith
Vigilance
The absence of thought. Often compared to what is seen on a blank television screen: nothing. But what projects behind the eyes when logic is switched off, but gears are still running? Inspired by Surrealism and the impact of insomnia on human beings, I aimed to project this overflow of thoughts, emotions, and ideas, which are often absurd when one is exhausted. This is a state of mind between the world of reality and dreams. A television with a lost remote.
Kerry Sullivan
The Tooth Fairy
With this piece I wanted to depict a dream I had in which I was visited by the Tooth Fairy. She wore a crown made of teeth and she grew mushrooms all over her body. I chose to create her hair piece out of eyes to show how she sees everything and to create a beautiful yet off-putting feel for the image. I wanted to play around with this idea and create something pretty.
Filippo Taketani Campos
Behind the Mask
I wanted to create a mask that would represent a little of who I am; a mysterious, wild, and at the same time happy and fun mask. My inspiration came from my dad’s mask collection, especially the ones from Mexico. Their vibrant colors and sometimes death theme makes it interesting, in a way that draws one to it. I also wanted to make it extravagant and modern adding some metal texture to it, like a rock n’ roll, Mexican, pop cultured mask. I thought I could use it as a piece of décor in my room, but I also use a mask to hide myself when I am feeling Blue.
Fiorella Valencia
Steady Progression
Art is really the only way that I can express and capture my emotions and thoughts. My artworks provide a visual platform for me so that people can understand my perspective as well as get a better grasp in understanding me.
Mei Visconti
Two Americas
I made this piece to portray the drastic political and social division that our nation underwent in 2020. When the attack on Capitol Hill took place, many people compared it to the BLM protests that arose over the summer of 2020. I used pictures of the BLM protests and distressed cardboard to juxtapose how the peaceful protesters, who were fighting for social equality, were seen as rioters while the people who broke into the U.S. Capitol were justified by the First Amendment and protected with privilege from the tear gas and rubber bullets that were used against the peaceful protesters.
Kateleen Walker
Underland
This work is a macabre, adaptation of one of my own beloved childhood stories of Alice in Wonderland. This work was heavily inspired by Tim Burton’s 2010 remake of Alice in Wonderland, where in the film the individuals that inhabit this strange land call it Underland. The particular the scene towards the end of the film where the White and Red Queen face off against each other while Alice, the White Queens champion goes up against the Jabberwocky is the setting I wanted my piece to take place in. Throughout this movie scene the fight is on, what seems to look like a black and white marbled chest board with ruins of a castles surrounding it.
I mirrored these aspects into my own image to show, comically; as this intense life or death battle was commencing somewhere off to the distance some rabbit flower was being eaten by a monstrously sized robin, while another flower who sadly lost out on being picked due to age, witnesses the gruesome act.
Lihao Wu
Boundaries
We tend to look at things, especially in nature, as if they are objects in their individual frames. The individual images in this collage represents these things, and with light editing, coexisting within each other. This is the bigger picture.
Julia Zapson
City Streets
My collage, city streets, is a grayscale street at night. I challenged myself to only use gray, white, and black paint. In doing this, I have displayed that there can still be beauty and serenity in things that don’t have color.
Vanessa Zito
A Face of Equality
My piece, A Face of Equality, shows character traits that we are lacking now more than ever. The background consists of finely cut magazine pieces that fit into an ombre-rainbow order in a mosaic fashion. I tried to make this represent something not only currently going on, but that will also leave an impact. Equality towards different genders, race, ethnicity, and more is so crucial during these hardships that our country is facing. Even something so compelling such as this backdrop may seem easily noticeable to some but can quickly fly right past others.
Brick and Mortar students
Mini Collages: Portrait and Storytelling
Students in 2-D 1 classes were introduced to collage artists throughout the Cubism, Constructivism & Suprematism, Dada, and Surrealism, and Modern Art movements, and various artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Romare Bearden, and María Berrío. Students created two mini collages: one portrait, and one that tells a story using random images or images that “stood out to them” in some way, focusing on composition, emphasis, and craftsmanship.
