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Cathy Yang '20
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
By Cathy Yang '20
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
2017
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
2024
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
This artwork examines the place of genetically modified organisms in modern society and how we view them, blurring the line between item and organism.
2014
fine-tip pen and watercolor on paper
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
Continuation of After Class Hours.
2020
Digital Illustration
This symbolizes unity, being made by members of the Black Community. South African word, Umbutu, translates to togetherness or “I am because we are”
2023
Acrylic on Paper
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Link to Website
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
This piece depicts how TikTok primarily portrays a fetishized version of Asian women, leading to an uncertain digital future of complicated dynamics.
2022
Linoleum Block Print on Paper
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
2021
Short Film
My artwork is a sonnet in which two stars reminisce about Earth. Link to Artwork
Poem
[how I avoid winter quarter: experiments with colors and a palette knife]
Oil Paint on Canvas
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
Graphite on Paper
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
Projection Installation
This piece emerged from a desire to merge figurative and abstract forms. (there are some flaws in the .jpg, if needed I can retake pictures)
2015
Acrylic on Canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
This work centers on the relationship between the human and the artificial, inspired when I photographed my cousin with a stark, artificial flash.
Oil and Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
Four color Riso print