2020 WORKS AND JUNIOR AP PORTFOLIO
ZUZA
18x22 in
acrylic on canvas
This is apart of my Junior year Sustained investigation. The background is a bit different on this piece compared to the rest that are in this series. This is one of my favorites that I've made thus far. I think the colors turned out nice.
INDIA
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
This piece is of my sibling India. This also came out as one of the stronger pieces in my investigation. I wanted to have a more lifelike pose than the others in this investigation so I tested that out using this piece.
MCCALL
23x37 in
acrylic on canvas
This is one of the 5 pieces I was assigned this summer. It is part of a potential 20 part series I will be doing my junior year. I plan on painting portraits of multiple people, but I wanted to test it out on myself first.
POPO
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
This piece is very near and dear to me as this was the woman who gave me my passion for art and practically raised me for the first 8 years of my life. She is an incredibly kind person and I am so lucky of having the privilege to know her. This is also one of my favorite pieces I have done.
DAD
23x37 in
acrylic on canvas
This is another very important piece to my series, being of my Dad. This piece has a lot of personal meaning to me, and I believe that the shapes and colors turned out well and really compliment themselves.
LEXI
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
This piece came out a bit different than the rest I have painted thus far in the series. This piece is of my best friend, someone that has impacted my life in a huge positive way and that I am so grateful for.
BLUEBELL
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
This is a part of my Junior year Sustained investigation. I wanted to include my dog in this portfolio as my relationship with her is as important as any relationship I have with humans.
MOM
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
Though I have conflicting thoughts about how this piece turned out, It is another vital part of my series, depicting my mom. Obviously, she has made a huge impact on my life and I wouldn't be who I am without her. I may revisit this piece later on to fix it a bit.
YOUTH
18x22in
acrylic on canvas
This piece represents me before I knew who I was and what I wanted to be. I wanted this piece to be the connector throughout all the pieces in my portrait series that brings them all together. I used a monochromatic color palette to further show that I wouldn't be who I am today without the color that my loved ones have brought into my life.
MALI
23x37in
acrylic on canvas
This is another piece from the potential series I'll do this school year. This is one of my closest friends Mali. This piece was more difficult as I have never worked with green tones in a face. It was a challenge, but I believe it turned out nice.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my sustained investigation, I wanted to focus and honor the personal relationships in my life that have formed me into the person I am today. I painted important figures in my life who have given me skills, lessons, and led me into my own self-identity, passions, and beliefs. In my pieces, I want to show that everyone was born with a clean slate and their identity is ‘colorless’ until they are painted with the colors of what makes them who they are through relationships and life experiences. To convey this, I painted myself as a child, colorless, and in black and white, to represent the uncertainty of self-identity one has when being early in their youth. This is accompanied by portraits of the vibrantly colored faces of the people who gave me my own ‘colors’. I wanted these pieces to unify with each other but justify the differences between each person. I experimented with different lighting and photo quality when it came to my references which posed several challenges to my stylistic approach. I wasn't sure how to connect these portraits to the importance of these people, but I realized my dramatic use of color could help me solidify my message.
2020 WORKS
EVERETT
4x5 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
This was one of the largest things I have painted, it being 4x5 ft. This was a commissioned piece by a financial services company by the name of Elk River Wealth Management. It got its name after a distant relative of mine, and my grandma helped me decide on the title.
RAGE
16x18in
acrylic, collage
This was an expressional piece I used to convey my emotions at the time of making this piece. Anger is a very prevalent emotion that I deal with what feels like constantly and I wanted to utilize the collage in this piece as overwhelming to me and my mind, causing anger. I also wanted to use red/pink tones in my face to further the idea of anger, since many relate those tones to being angry.
DISTANT
10x14
acrylic, watercolor, alcohol markers
This piece is a representation of how as an individual, I am dealing with the global pandemic that has intervened and created conflicts in everyone's daily life. I wanted to portray myself as a zombie, because that is how the virus has affected me. Staying inside all day has become very mind numbing for me and to distance myself from my friends has been very tough. I wanted this piece to be very fluid and I came up with the composition as I went along, I also used various media to the practice ways of mark-making that I am not very comfortable in.
BOREDOM
10x7in
acrylic
I wanted to capture my emotion with this piece relating to how I, personally am dealing with the current crisis that is COVID-19. I wanted this piece to be almost like a mirror, as I catch myself staring into the void that is a mirror and making expressions because I am that bored. I believe I am not alone in this and many fall to the child-like thing that is expressing emotions alone to a mirror. I wanted to include a sparkly background to further convey my point of staring into a void.