Grade 11

Tess Sheremeta

Quarantine Reflection

2020

This piece, like the title suggests, expresses my experience during quarantine. I wanted to create something that represented the feeling of repeating the same day over and over, which seemed to be a pretty universal feeling during quarantine. I and most of my friends had a backwards sleep schedule during quarantine which left us feeling a sense of numbness, living everyday in a dream-like state. I used acrylic on canvas to create this pierce and focused on colors such as blues, greys and reds to try to express the feeling of exhaustion and boredom. I wrote the days of the week messily in the background to express the feeling of all the days blending together. The goal of my quarantine reflection piece was to try to invoke emotion, whether that be a sense of sadness, understanding, or even relatability.

Carrie Watkins

Reflection Artwork

2020

The piece depicts a figure who is not necessarily a self portrait, per se, but meant to represent myself, floating in water surrounded by papers, books, and pens. It is a watercolor piece with some line art in colored pencil. I was inspired to create this piece by the sense of detachment and dissociation I felt during the coronavirus lockdown. It is meant to represent the sense of peaceful, euphoric meaninglessness as I watched myself be entirely unproductive for months on end.

Mia Achcet

Holding What's True

2020

This pencil on paper drawing was made as a reaction to the Global Pandemic, at a time when all things had stopped and everyone was left to their own devices. Especially during quarantine, the world often seems very crazy and unpredictable, but it is how people counteract the imperfections and the unpredictability of situations that define who they are as individuals and where they are meant to go. The use of color, various textures, as well as realistic and abstract imagery, show the unique interpretation of how the pandemic encouraged adaptability and progress, and how those values will be continued in the future.

Leo DeCarlo

A Flipped World

2020

Samantha Cazer

Metathesiophobia (Fear of Change)

2020

METATHESIOPHOBIA (fear of change) is an artwork depicting a melting face with various articles in the background. This artwork was inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown which led to a lot of stress and feeling isolated. While making this artwork I experimented with painting and backgrounds. I feel like I learned a lot about the process of making a large artwork, painting, and myself during this project.

Jessie Reed

Untitled

2020

For my Reflection Artwork, I decided to do a large watercolor painting of all the games I played this summer since I couldn’t do any of my usual summer activities. At the beginning of quarantine, I got a game console called a Nintendo Switch and spent most of my time either drawing or playing video games on it to distract myself a bit from how crazy the world had become. A lot of these games had excellent world-building and were so full of things to do and look at that I ended up spending hundreds of hours on some of them. I chose to combine all of these worlds and characters into one painting, as well as adding a couple things from my house and living room. Although I had a ton of fun playing video games, I’m glad school eventually started. It’s never good to spend all your time on a screen, no matter how many cool virtual worlds there are to explore.

Ian Tracy

The Dealer

2020

Megan Calos

American Snakes

2020

My goal in creating this piece was to represent ACAB in a new light. It was important to me to choose a symbol to effectively signify the brutality inflicted by members of the U.S police force. To do this, I used a coral snake, exemplifying both the deadly attacks posed to black U.S citizens, and the ‘misconceptions’ used as excuses for police brutality. This idea stems from the nursery rhyme about coral snakes: “red touch black, safe for Jack, red touch yellow, kill a fellow”. This rhyme is used as an identifier between the deadly coral snake (with bands of red scales touching yellow scales) and the king snake, a non-lethal snake bearing the opposite order of colors on its scales. I chose to use this to describe the way in which police often make snap judgments of a person’s threat based on the color of their own skin. They justify their violence by claiming the victim was indeed a threat, and they were only acting on this instinct. With this painting I wanted to emphasize that in these situations, the officers’ true colors show. The coral snake is entwined with the police car, showing where the real threat lies.

Emily Willoughby

Spring Series

2020

Shilun Xi

Onion

2020

It's an onion hermit in their little house with a physically impossible periscope. The onion is a hermit because the world outside is not doing great and they're looking outside to see what's going on. It's based on current events in 2020 where there's a global pandemic and the US is currently not doing a great job of controlling its spread. Also, it's because I like onions. This was drawn digitally with Krita because it's free and it has an undo button. The undo button was very useful when I was drawing the swirls and lines. It's a pretty accurate representation of what I did (or rather, didn't do) in 2020 because of everything that went on.

Elizabeth Ward

Isolation

2020

Ever since the middle of March, everything has been changing very rapidly. For instance, sanitation has become more important than ever, so we don’t spread germs to others, but also so that the germs of others don’t make their way into our home. In this day and age, it is very easy to order online, and it has become very popular now. However, we must be careful with the packages, given the possibility that there could still be germs on them. Besides this, another difference is that now many people have a lot more free time, since most people don’t have to commute to work, run errands much less often, and aren’t able to go out with their friends. For me, this has allowed a lot more time for rest and relaxation, including giving me more time to read each day and work on new hobbies, such as gardening. It also has forced many people to spend even more time on electronics. Everything seems to be online now, including school, work for many people, and also “hanging out” with friends virtually, either through FaceTime, Zoom, or just calling. Also, since we are stuck at home, we spend much of our free time either watching TV, binging new Netflix shows, playing video games, and all the other various things people do on their phones. I am very grateful for the technology we have access to, so I can continue to learn everyday and stay in contact with my friends. However, sometimes it still feels very lonely, without the physical human contact we are used to.

Indirah Francis

COVID Collage

2020

Timothy Lin

What I Did

2020

This is how my summer went, what I did, and how I felt doing them. The background was done with watercolor while the figures are outlined in gouache.

Janet Pan

Surreal Interior

2020

Emily Willoughby

Untitled

2020

Janet Pan

Under the Blanket

2020

Ava Giagni

BLM Protest

2020

Daniel Quinn

Life in Isolation

2020

As much as I enjoy spending time with my family, being cooped up in the same house as them is getting really tiring. Being the youngest of three I have been booted out of my room and relegated to the basement. My sister has been spending her time mass-producing masks while my brother has been playing video games late into the night. I am for sure ready to get back in the classroom and resume the normal life I once had.

Julia Gorman

2020

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Payton Woodward

Distance

2020

I chose the window pictures. My little sister is the perfect example of wanting normal human interaction. She is used to constantly seeing her friends and being taught by her actual teachers. A young kid needs to be around people and leave the house. It keeps them sane. She is stuck inside. I chose to show her raw emotion through the windows. The reaching represents her reaching for someone that she can’t see. You can also see me in the reflection in multiple pictures to represent that other people want the same thing as her. The last picture is used as a “to be continued” picture. It shows her waiting for something- in this case waiting for this to all be over.

Lindsey Whitley

Most Wanted

2020

Madison Dominguez-Norris

Untitled

2020

I was motivated to create this artwork after looking at how poor sexual education is in schools around the U.S. There is an abundance of information that schools do not touch on, and it becomes oppressive to teens who are trying to figure themselves out. Some schools think that if they do not teach their kids certain things then the kids will not experiment with it. The only consequence that this provides, is teens being unsafe in their exploring because they do not know how to be safe. This piece was meant to be textured and rough looking, and gestural. I added acrylic paint and then oil pastel on top to achieve this. My intention with color was to juxtapose the woman in the scenery with reds and soothing purples next to the green hand that shadows part of her body and covers her up involuntarily. To me, this piece embodies the struggle to have power over my body and feel powerful with it when I’m not allowed to show it and how I don’t know a lot about it, or even what the purpose of my female body is.

Blake Bender

Untitled Photo Collage

2020

Megan Calos

Divine Couple's Therapy

2021

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