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Jianna So '22
“prayer”, featuring the artist’s grandmother, captures feelings of chaos and anxiety, as well as the calm performed to or provided by others.
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2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
2016
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
This is a painting of inception as an artist at the Louvre Museum recreates “The Death of Sardanapalus” by Delacroix, a little boy looking up in awe.
Acrylic on Canvas
A light spring shower wakes the soul. Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.
2019
Photoshop
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
2017
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
2018
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
Vero is a UG2 custodial worker on campus who I tutor through habla. I hoped to display her as I have grown to know her: strong and compelling.
Oil Paint on Canvas
I painted a face digitally, and I like frames, angels, and rocket ships.
2020
Digital Art
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
Episode 1 of an upcoming mystery micro-film series
2022
Short Film
Video edited from found footage reflecting on the repetition, absurdity, and futility of everyday life. Duration: 05:05
Video Art
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
Photographs
Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.
2024
Oil on Canvas
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
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
The setting sun casts a firey light onto the skyline of San Francisco, with Coit Tower visible over the hills of the city.
Oil paint on canvas
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Watercolor on Paper
Princess Going Digital considers queer girlhood on the playground of the laptop screen, a site for unapologetic self-documentation and portraiture.
Gouache on Paper