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King Gallo
King Gallo
2020
2020
This artwork is a self portrait with the thoughts I had during 2020, it has images of what I thought summed up 2020 and what made it memorable to me. I used colored pencils to color myself, and used paints to depict what happened during this year's events, I used the difference in methods of arts to differentiate myself and my ideas. My goal is to recap the events of this year and subliminally retell the events that led to it and how the events are going to affect the future.
EmmaLitzner_Gloomy Days_10_Leach_NHS.mp4Emma Litzner
Emma Litzner
Gloomy Days
2020
Mia Chaymang
Mia Chaymang
2020
Kassandra Morris
Kassandra Morris
Disconnected
2020
When we become so addicted to the media, it is easy to feel detached from our reality and even from ourselves. Our identity becomes a blur and feels lost within the inner workings of a screen. This piece illustrates that disassociation but in a more broken down, in-your-face sort of way (and quite literally, too). The emphasis is on something that's been degraded by technology so much that it's not even human; its limbs replaced by wires, deprived of any organs. I assembled this piece using cardboard, acrylic paint, wire, clay, and any other found objects. I thought that constructing this rather than just drawing it would bring the piece to life more, drawing you into its disturbing yet almost welcoming little world.
Liam Smith
Liam Smith
Passage
2020
This piece depicts a house floating through a space. This piece was done with acrylic paint and consists of a somewhat limited palette of 7 colors of paint. The blue background was built up by layering numerous coats and shades of paint. The inspiration for this piece came from a desire to explore more surreal ideas and experiment with the use of paint. This piece is based on experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anna Macko
Anna Macko
Monster
2020
Emma Nobes
Emma Nobes
The Passage of Time
2020
Skyler Dee
Skyler Dee
Crumbling Wings
2020
My artwork contains three dragons trapped inside cracked glass boxes. I did the line art with micron pens, and the coloring with copic markers. The clouds surrounding the image were done with watercolor pencils. It’s supposed to express how trapped people felt during quarantine, and how our mental health became fragile like glass and started to crumble as time went on. I didn’t plan on this at first, but at the end I added clouds around the dragons, showing that this was taking place in the sky. I also included the Japanese word for worry, 心配, because I really started getting serious about learning Japanese when quarantine started, and also because it was a really worrying time.
Malak Al-Kofahi
Malak Al-Kofahi
A Slight Inconvenience
2020
Malak_Al-Kofahi_Oscarious_10_Leach_NHS.movMalak Al-Kofahi
Malak Al-Kofahi
Oscarious
2020
Mia_Chaymang_Woodles_10_Leach_NHS.movMia Chaymang
Mia Chaymang
Woodles
2020
Malak Al-Kofahi
Malak Al-Kofahi
Untitled
2020
My artwork represents declining mental health. Some of the details I tried to include are the cracks in the walls that they tried to cover up, the character hiding away under the blanket, the implied substance abuse, the upside down ‘up’ box, and the overall overwhelmingness of the clutter. I think that it ended up almost resembling an ‘I spy’ type of picture, where I’ve tried to hide away many little details with their own meanings. Although I have a specific theme in mind, I think that this can be pretty open ended, as you will interpret what you find as it suits you.
Sara Abatto
Sara Abatto
Health Care Pop Art
2020
Patricia Guidarelli
Patricia Guidarelli
Justice
2020
Yashawini Gandham
Yashawini Gandham
Live, Laugh and Love
2020
Annalee Card
Annalee Card
We Will Rise
2021
Allison Wuttke
Allison Wuttke
Untitled
2020
Avree Torres
Avree Torres
Expressive Self Portrait
2020
Caitlin Cho
Caitlin Cho
The Hill We Climb
2021
Ian Bolle
Ian Bolle
Slow and Steady
2020
Charlotte Quinn
Charlotte Quinn
Not Really Helping
2020
The title of my art is “Not Really Helping”. This piece is about performative allyship. This is when a person makes it appear that they are engaged in a human rights movement, but they actually do very little, and it is all for the sake of gaining popularity. This is commonly seen on social media, which is why I included the phones. The goal of this piece was to call out all of the “influencers” on social media who think that posting or reposting a video is enough. I used a darker pallet of acrylic paints to show the seriousness of the situation, and to make it very “in your face”. I see performative allyship all the time, and it needs to stop. We as a generation hide behind our screens, and enough is enough. It’s time to take action, and I mean real physical action.
Sophia Piracci
Sophia Piracci
Let Down Your Hair
2020
Let Down Your Hair is a visual depiction of my time in quarantine. It’s a self portrait in which I have taken on the role of Rapunzel, trapped in her tower. Being in the same house, the same room, alone, for months on end is so incredibly lonely. I felt trapped. Trapped in the house itself, and trapped in my own thoughts. This piece depicts that feeling. It consists of a pencil drawing portrait which I cut out and pasted on white paper on which I had drawn a dark black “window”. The portrait is the focal point of the artwork and the simple background helps to provide contrast. To provide a bit of context, I cut out letters from a magazine which spell out the title of the piece, Let Down Your Hair, which provides context to the image and directly references Rapunzel, which it was inspired by. Although the piece is a depiction of how I felt personally over the past few months, I feel that it is something that many could relate to and find comfort, or just the right amount of discomfort in.
Drake Brown
Drake Brown
Untitled
2020
Emma Mclear
Emma Mclear
Hello There
2020
Emily de Soyza
Emily de Soyza
Stop the Steal
2021
Lena Schiavo
Lena Schiavo
The Hill We Climb
2021
Emily de Soyza
Emily de Soyza
Untitled
2020
This responsive artwork was created because of the political and social climate in the world. With lots of issues and topics being talked about, it is hard to form your own opinions. Each icon in the piece represents a topic that has been talked about broadly. The piece depicts the artist with symbols tangled in their hair. For example, there is Donald Trump as a Cheeto, self-love, equality, body positivity, black lives matter, mental health, and the democratic party. This artwork is important to the artist because it is a way to express their thoughts and opinions on current issues without them getting jumbled up in their head. The artist made this piece using markers and multi-media paper.
Kassandra Morris
Kassandra Morris
The Hill We Climb
2021
Nicolette Pepper
Nicolette Pepper
The Hill We Climb
2021
Adelyn Farrell
Adelyn Farrell
Don't Be Afraid, Just Believe - Mark
2020
Adelyn Farrell
Adelyn Farrell
The Passage of Time
2020
Katerina Stanco
Katerina Stanco
Untitled
2020
Morgan Gates
Morgan Gates
I Love the Earth
2020
Pallavi Datta
Pallavi Datta
Sunset Skies
2020
My reflection artwork features a figure (representing myself) sitting on the windowsill, looking out at a city as the sun sets. I chose to do a painting with acrylics because I wanted to bring through bold colors and explore a new medium, and I felt as if a bigger canvas would be more impactful.
The idea came from reflecting upon these past six months which have been a mix of so many different emotions, and I ultimately settled on a more symbolic and imaginative approach to expressing it. The initial inspiration came from how during quarantine, I “rediscovered” sunsets and that time of day became a calming and reflective time for me. I think sunsets can figuratively represent how change can be beautiful, and the piece has an element of looking to the future in it. The window represents a kind of disconnect from the outside and the city is like the remnants of our old “normal”.
Caitlyn LaFargue
Caitlyn LaFargue
Isolation
2020
Themes from the coronavirus pandemic inspired this illustration, so darker materials were used to purloin the light that could've been included to convey some of the emotions I personally have felt during this time. The charcoal was used mainly for shading and to add these dark tones and so there is a sense of absence for light and depth could be developed. What this illustration means to me is that it is easy to become tied up in loneliness during the pandemic and how at the same time everything in the background seems blurry and confusing.
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