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Mingqi Shuai '26
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
2022
doodle
By Mingqi Shuai '26
As we were walking through the streets in Rome, my mom noticed the harsh shadows hitting the restaurant in front of us, creating gorgeous colors.
2016
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.
2017
Enamel Paint
This painting was an exercise to try and use simple, yet bold brushstrokes to capture the essence of the moment.
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This self portrait depicts the artist in self reflection. The couple gazes forward, as hidden collaged images loom behind, reminding them of the past.
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas 30 x 40 in
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
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Photoshop
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
2021
Water Color on Paper
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.
2019
Photograph/Scanned Image
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
Oil on canvas
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
A portrayal of the death of Chaos as depicted in the Zhuangzi, who expired after Shu and Hu bored a new hole into him each day for seven days.
2015
Digital Visual Art
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
Forms of intimacy—emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual—overlap in these abstract shapes. Intimacy is fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood Sculpture
A sense of colorful peace
painting on computer
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
Oil Paint on Canvas
2021 — a year of uncertainties, breakthroughs, and hope. The nurse at a vaccination site epitomizes this spirit of perseverance and hope.
This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.
Boulder & Rope