2021-22 College Admissions Portfolio
Role
Visual Artist
Purpose
During my 2021 summer, the summer before my senior year, I focused on creating an art portfolio for my 2021-22 college admissions application. While I experimented with and integrated various mediums throughout the creation of my portfolio, I demonstrate my skills in observational drawings, emotion-inspired works, intricate sculpture, and mixed media pieces. My pieces led to my acceptance to Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Skills
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premier Pro
Visual Art
Figure drawings
Oil pastel
24 x 18 in
Watercolor, oil pastel
24 x 18 in
Watercolor
18 x 12 in
Observational pieces
Surrender (2021)
Charcoal
117.125 x 31.5 in each panel
Being a student, especially a student who is interested in pursuing the arts, requires sacrificing time for practice and creating. Other inhabitants that sacrifice their lives for human beings are animals, especially those in the meat and poultry industry. I wanted to depict myself submitting and offering my own self to my future self through enduring current stress and anxiety by connecting the sacrificial depiction of animals to my figurative sacrificial portrayal.
Surrender Observational (2021)
Charcoal
117.125 x 31.5 in each panel
Collage of charcoal observational drawings used in the background of Surrender. Emphasizes the mark-making and rendering of the meats and poultry.
Ordered lsolation (2021)
Oil paint on acrylic board
24 x 18 in
Refrigerators are orderly, but cold and inhospitable. My thoughts are organized, but distressed and anxious. Through the relationship between necessary sustenance and essential thinking, the juxtaposition between messy and tidy are painted on physical layers to emphasize the orderly, yet isolation that exists inside refrigerators.
Surreal Mess (2021)
Charcoal, Conte crayon
16 x 12 in
From personal experience, being distressed comes with being unorganized and confused, especially through an environmental setting. The chaos developed from stress is illustrated through messy charcoal linework of disorganized and hectic space. While things can be confused, all of my inner thoughts are confined in my own room in my head.
Guache, pastel
12 x 18 in
Oil pastel
20.5 x18 in
Unrefined (2021)
Acrylic, Conte crayon
29 x 34.5 in
Thoughts about food commonly bring the notion of beautiful picturesque dishes, making the raw and true appearance of food ignored and overlooked, especially the uneasy look of red meat. I want to emphasize the disturbing and unpleasant view of raw meat in an aesthetically interesting appearance.
Mixed media pieces
Look Over 1 (2021)
Sewing, fabric, yarn
17 x 22.5 in
Through personal facial expression and the physical piercing of string through sewing, I display the agonizing and stress I consistently experience. Sewing and the pulling of string enable me to visually portray the tension and tug of my anxiety and pressure dragging me to even more burden.
Look Over 2 (2021)
Sewing, fabric, yarn
15 x 15 in
Emphasizing the feeling of being skimmed over and ignored through the manual placement of layers and mediums on top of myself with the repetition of penetrating thread within the fabric. Exaggerating the perspective and sorrow expression of being looked down at by dragging and pointing everything on the fabric to one focal point while portraying a forced enthusiastic appearance with vibrant color.
Insecure (2021)
Acrylic, electrical wire, tinfoil, found objects
10 x 9 x 19 in
Through personal facial expression and the physical piercing of string through sewing, I display the agonizing and stress I consistently experience. Sewing and the pulling of string enable me to visually portray the tension and tug of my anxiety and pressure dragging me to even more burden.
Their Confinement (2021)
Clay, wire, LED lights, gloves, acrylic
8 x 18 x 6 in
My personal thoughts are confined within myself, always seeking reassurance from others to ensure I am walking in the right “direction.” Sometimes, even letting others carry and lead me without a second thought as if I am inside a bag of groceries.
Pressure (2021)
Acrylic, linoprint, gauze
22 x 30 in
One of my biggest fears is facing judgment from others and the pressure of time. Through the figures’ intimidating stance and linoprints depicting times and due dates as the patterns on their pants, I portray my feeling of uneasiness of public judgment, emotional panic, and horror of “time running out”—a thought all students, especially me, fear.
Video project
Overwhelming (2021)
Video using Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop
Video file, 59.7 MB
Visually portraying my sense of anxiety and stress through the use of sharp cutouts and giving the audience the unexpected—putting myself into the trash bag—to illustrate my wanting to avoid difficult life responsibilities.
Overwhelming sketchbook (2021)
Pencil and composed in Photoshop
Digital file, 7.1 MB
Brainstorming and planning out thumbnails in preparation for my film "Overwhelming" to figuratively express my anxious self wanting to run away from life responsibilities.