2021 Senior Portfolio Honorable Mention – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

Skeleton standing next to a road at sunset

Anonymous: The Road

Painting with sections of colors starting wide at edge and converging into the center. Clockwise from top: blue, grey/black, yellow, red with black border, green, white. Different characters from TV show cartoons are painted in each section.

Charles Espinoza: Shows that got me through Highschool

Photograph of Waveland Ave. by Wrigley Field at night.

Maria Arce: Chicago during a global pandemic

Mostly black and white painting of a laughing baby, sitting surrounded by pillows against a purple wall.

Patricia Malik: Oh Baby Girl

Orange, red, and yellow phoenix painted on a collage of Spanish language newspapers.

Ashley Velazquez: Rising Above

Person's face with bright pink eyeshadow. Surrounded by stars and bursts of blue and red.

Anonymous: Trellas

Torso with black holes in the head out of which stream ribbons of color

Aksel Juarez Mejia: Out of My mind

Digital collage of a dog in a tutu on a stage with a red curtain and audience shadows.

Aruba Awan: Untitled

Person sitting with phone and iced coffee in front of a garage with style writing on it.

Myreliz Romero: Natural Habitat

Black and white line drawing of a person's torso, framed with yellow and purple borders

Anonymous: reasons

Oblique-view photo of a wooden fence down a street, in dark, night-time grayscale.

Skylaar Perry: Untitled

Surreal landscape with red river, Chicago skyline, transparent face, and shoreline.

Joshua Aco: Still Lying Down

Black and white line drawing of person wearing a skirt with their back to the viewer. Person is in a library.

Anonymous: Original Character

Melanie Silva: Untiled Self Portrait

Painting of an anatomical heart sitting atop blue leaves, with a colorful dragonfly inspecting a puncture wound at the base of the heart.

Anonymous: A Contented Soul

Detailed drawing with black pen. Face center with long hair and tears. A large lightbulb is in the upper right corner and another face blindfolded is bottom right. A tree spirals up from the bottom left. Clouds, moon and stars are present. Text is incorporated throughout the drawing.

Anonymous: Reality Inverted

Picture of the heel of a black, white, and red Nike Air mid-top shoe.

Eric Diaz: project 1

Photography of clothing oriented 90 degrees to the right. The clothes create flowing wave-like lines across the image.

David Morales: WAVY

graphic poster of pink cartoon cat.

Mila Perez: summer instillation

"Secret" on cardbord, with the S, R, and E drawn in black and the E, C, and T cut out and overlayed on a green background

Isabelle Galvin: ETC.

Portrait of a face with a gold halo around head.

Jomaris Rivera: Untitled

Digital drawing of a person cutting their hair with scissors

Kylin Thomas: R.I.P Dreads

Painting of cucumbers cut and sliced in a red bowl

Jaqueline Garcia: Bowl Of Cucumbers

Painting of a person lying down, fully clothed in a bathtub. They are wearing a scarf around their head, sunglasses and reading a book. The tub is filled with gym shoes.

Selah Payne: We are Luxury

Surrealist image with person walking on road in front of large elephant emerging from mountain range.

Abby Balmaseda: Untitled

Geometric etchings of white and yellow against a background of reds and browns.

Micaela Martinez: Enter

Anonymous: Heritage

A weeping face, covered by hands, superimposed over a close-up photo of blue butterflies and a wide shot of sunflowers in a field.

Claudia Oveido: Surrealist Identity

Surreal landscape with a ghost on a bridge with a red moon.

Hikari Nakasone: A Dream

charcoal illustration

Isabella Cozzone: Charcoal Singer

Drawing of a wine glass atop a wood table, with small strawberries growing on stalks inside the glass.

Evelyn Chen: 2020, I Raise My Glass to You

Black and white line drawing of person surrounded by their hair.

Taliyah Taylor: Hairitage

Stylized pencil drawing of a sports car with soft lines, large wheels and gradual curves

Anonymous: Primevere Elara

Photograph of a bed with 3 photographs of airplanes hung on the wall next to the bed.

Zackary Cohen: Goals

Black and white pencil drawing of a person's face with long hair and a flower in their hair.

Oscar Gonzalez: The look.

Digital painting of a face, person is holding left hand up to left cheek.

Ashanti Hicks: Challxn

Photograph: Two large wooden doors separated by a stone column. On each door is signage with health guidance regarding COVID 19.

D’Marques Henry: doors

Photograph of plant looking up at blue sky

Catherine Correa: Flower

line drawing of person with pointed ears and bleeding eyes surrounded by eyes on a blackbackground

Grey Watson: Buzz Buzz

Photograph of sconce that is out of focus.

Anonymous: pic2

Painting of a living room with a window and plant, beige couch and glass table in foreground.

Emmia Gearon: Nest

Series of rings made of wire and blue and white crystals. Photographed on a circular mirror.

Olivia Andujar: Rings

Person in blue jacket and hat sitting at a picnic table holding an orange cat.

Enrique Meza: Family Portrait

Juritcy Alvarado: Purple Mountains

Graphite still-life of a succulent in a pot, a bluetooth speaker, and several drawing implements scattered around.

Romina Greco: Self Object Portrait

Person standing in field in black dress and white sneakers, holding a baseball glove.

Jersey Benjamin: BOY

Drawing of Ms. Piggy as a mermaid. Water is in front of her. She wears a flower in her hair and her tail curls up behind her.

Anonymous: Ms. Piggy Mermay

Photo of deep-red raspberries and dark blackberries in market cartons.

Anonymous: Fresh and Vibrant

Horizontal panel of three photos. First is of two people, one helps the other with their hair. Second is of two people posing for the camera, they embrace. The third is two people sitting together on a couch, reading a book and on a laptop.

Ma’Laysia Brown: ism project

Drawing of a brown vessel with black and white pattern on the exterior

Yingqi Jiang: Boba

Painting of bees flying in a circular pattern above a stem, making the shape of a flower.

Emma Joy Wall: Honey Flower

Surreal restroom with blue walls, orange toilet, and green and yellow checkerboard floor

Isabella Tsanov: I Love Public Restrooms

Cereal style box art of person with blond hair and a bowl of cereal. They have a green band-aid on their nose. Yellow, emjio like, smiley faces surround them.

Kayla Meza: Liquid Laugh

abstract watercolor painting

Melanie Avila: Hope

Painting of a mountain range with a blue body of water in front. In cursive, written large across the painting is the phrase "You are beautiful to me..."

Anonymous: Beauty is Everywhere

Anonymous: Untitled Landscape

Painting of outer space with two large planets eclipsed half in shadow. Planets are red, white and blue. Yellow and white stars dot the entire canvas.

Anonymous: Untitled

Series of 4 drawings on magnets, each with three eyes and on four different colored backgrounds.

Anonymous: Third Eye Collective

Neon purple lights in a wave behind person looking at camera.

Edmond Abraham: Psychedelic Selfie

Digital illustration of man in gray suit painting, storefronts, a baseball card, and script text reading "El Mafioso."

Bianca Datro: The Italian Mobster

Protrait of a face with shoulder length hair that is black with streaks of red, yellow, blue and green. Painted in the background are cherries and lemons.

Charlotte Bidstrup: MARINA

Digital painting of a figure with a dark face wearing a red turtle neck and blue gloves. Green and yellow leaves fall around them. Next to them on the left of the painting is a bee and on the right is just the face and a paw of a purple dog.

Mario Saucedo Jr.: Fallspring

Black and white photo of lots of people walking across the street. Photo is intentionally blurred.

Cassius Palacio: Rushed Moment or Guassian Blur

Drawing of urban rooftops and utility poles at night, lit by a soft-colored full moon.

Samantha Cao: Untitled

Photograph of a matryoshka (nesting) doll on a blue background

Nicole Kubecki: матрёшка

Photo of a rhino at zoo

Flavio Martin Hermosillo: Dyin Breed

People walking along street past boarded up windows

Charlesa Thompson: Loud cries in the name of injustice

Painting of a person with two long dark braids and clear eye glasses. They are seated with their arms raised to face. A milkshake is next to them.

Madinah Rush: Madinah – self portrait

Sculpture of plants made of cans, cups, and plastic bottles.

Michael Kleiner: Fabricated Flower

Silhouette of person with ponytail in front of dark blue lit window.

Adela Velic: Feeling Blue

Black and white print: recursive self portrait of artist with hand on forehead.

Kevin Cardenas: Endless Frustration

Person wearing red hoodie facing away from the viewer.

Christopher Reynoso: The bigger Picture

Jellyfish line pattern stitched in a swatch of blue cloth.

Natalia Penalbert: Tingling Water

Black and white drawing of a person, with red around the eyes. Person holding up hand with thumb, pointer and middle finger raised.

Fatima Tlatilpa: The rock n roll dream

Elven person in green dress holding a bird, riding a stag in a dark forest.

Susan Zhao: Guardian of Nature

A Black child standing in front of a Chicago row house, with two adult arms holding their shoulders, both pierced by bleeding bullet holes.

Tyshaun Zollicoffer: Untitled

Close-up photo of a birdhouse, open, with seashells, scout badges, and other objects within.

Zaria George: HIRAETH

Nightime photo of the Esquire Motel on Elston Avenue on the Northwest side of Chicago

Arianna Telles: Agony at the Esquire

Black and white composite photo of a person's face portraying different emotions; each image of their face at different angles and images layer on top each other.

Jalen Garcia: Interactionism

Painting of the top half of Frida Kahlo's head, with "Frida" written above and two quotations below, with a background of bright red.

Adriana Garay: My Inspirational Leader

Still life painting with a yellow and red cloth on table, glass vase with green and pink flowers, and dark beads draped in the vase.

Viviana Hernandez: Floral View

Photo: top half of a stone sculpture of a person holding a pencil with their right hand at chest. Photo is taken outside; tree branches in the background.

Mario Jimenez: A Good Writer Always Carries A Pencil

black and white drawing of a torso surrounded by eyes

Cesar Fernandez: All Eyes On

Detailed drawing with black pen. Face center with long hair and tears. A large lightbulb is in the upper right corner and another face blindfolded is bottom right. A tree spirals up from the bottom left. Clouds, moon and stars are present. Text is incorporated throughout the drawing.

Anonymous: Reality Inverted

Mixed media print. A black silhouette of a person is centered on the page. All around the page printed in red is the quote "No, another social outcast".

Amelia Dolly: No, another social outcast

Black embroidery of two people with swimsuits leaping.

Sasha Spain: one

Drawing of a person with red hair lying with back turned.

Azriel Mesa: Susanna and the Elders Figure Study

Drawing of a character with fairy wings covering their face in a fetal position, standing atop a raised fist.

Vanyce Holmes: Freedom

Digital illustration of sugar skull with bright celebratory colors and flower patterns throughout.

Alexis Ariza: Day Of The Dead

Animation of a face, person is wearing a grey hat.

Kamily Corral: Suga

Boarded-up storefront "Shop & Save" with an older person and their dog photoshopped in front of the shop, looking bemused.

Leopold Serpe: Artificial

Photo of an alley behind houses at night. A light illuminates a ghostly figure in a white sheet.

Anonymous: Empty End

Digital artwork. A wood and rope ladder rises from desert sand up to a blue three dimensional square floating in a black sky.

Isabel Pamatian: Haven

Photograph of subterranean, concrete pedestrian passageway with mural art on left wall of an open mouth and people's faces. A person stands at the distant centered background in front of a flight of stairs.

Henry Stensland: Canyon of Concrete

Nathalia Pizarro: Sam The Gal

A cacophony of text, with phrases like "WHO REQUIRES" and "I WANT TO SEE" superimposed over one another.

Anonymous: a distortion

Anonymous: Reflections

Painting of purple butterfly on pink flower with "La Mariposa" written below.

Lizzet Zumba: Untitled

Person with purple skin, black and orange hair with 3 butterflies in the background.

Anonymous: Untitled

Photo of a person sitting on a basketball.

Anonymous: Manuel

Sunset over the North Branch of the Chicago River, surrounded with trees and natural plants. Two kayakers are on the river, with people walking on adjacent path.

Ty Villanueva: A Wednesday Afternoon On Earth

Multiple figures suspended in blue bubbles within a green sea, with schools of fish swimming between the bubbles.

Olivia Vue: Quarantine in a Bubble

Vertical text in pencil, in Arabic and two other scripts.

Anonymous: Untitled

Person wearing black hoodie and hat throwing a baseball at the photographer. Baseball is in focus, rest of image is not.

Sebastian Fernandez: Baseball Catch

Photograph: five bright red and orange flowers with pointy petals are center against a black background.

Anjonae’ Coleman: In the Dark

Digital artwork of the character Baraka from Mortal Combat. A figure with arms crossed over chest, spears attached to arms. Figure is smiling with sharply pointed teeth.

Ann Duong: Baraka

Acrylic painting of a figure in shades of blue, nude and viewed from behind, holding up long, curly locks of blue hair, face turned to the side.

Kejaha Shelton: A Case of the Blues

Painting of a pineapple in florescent blues, reds, and purples.

Adela Lisca: Pineapple

Person with no facial features wearing yellow hat and holding orange balloon in a pink room having a virtual birthday party on a laptop.

Nadia Hervert: Birthday blues

Drawing of four people, close together with arms wrapped around each other and looking out.

Dalila Mendez: Embodiment

Photo of the Summer Palace in China. Redesigned in Photoshop, adding lines and details onto the building itself. Low angle perspective, structure rises against a dark background.

Aiyana Hernandez: The Summer Palace

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