Taft HS – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas

Skeleton standing next to a road at sunset

Anonymous: The Road

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

Anonymous: Fresh and Vibrant

Edana Lynch: Birthday

A digital illustration of a bee on a red flower, against a blue cloudy sky.

Jack Clark: Bee

Drawing of buildings with plants and flowers.

Anonymous: Untitled

An embroidered bloomed rose with a yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adulthood

A gold box holding a clock, framed flower, plate, religious statue, and a bell

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

Watercolor of 1/2 of a person's face in front of waterfront

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait

Embroidered rose in its closed state against a slightly yellow tinted background.

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood

Black and white abstract drawing of persons face with heavy sketch strokes and flowers around her

Ezra G: Purity

Black and white photograph of person with locs and glasses looking out over a balcony through a wet window.

Fay Jenson: Clarity

Meta N: bows

black letters on a cream background

Ella Chambers: Remember

Textile artwork made up of red black grey and white fabric. Grey border with red and black stitches, and black center with wolf like face in middle, with red mouth and white teeth and eyes.

Aleksandra F: Pup

sketch of faces

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 3

Older person in front of green background. Back ground is ornamented with faux red and white flowers.

Anonymous: Margarita

Map of Chicago made out of words and letters

Anonymous: Untitled

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

A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast

Abstract quilt with earth-toned fabric

Amanda Nadig: We Are Going To Destroy This House

Mixed media artwork of a blackout poem on bookpage with cutouts of vintage photographs of women, and callout words

Lila C: A Feminine Experience

illustration of 4 creatures in the woods sitting on a tree branch

Kay Kmiec: The Creature in The Shadows

Edana Lynch: Lysol

Drawing of a person on a playground with a Rubik's cube head

Samara Torres Contreras: Octavo

Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding

Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled

three portraits in colored pencil

Adele Roberts: Angle

Abstract quilt of grays and creams.

Amanda Nadig: Charcoal Screen Printed Wall Quilt

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

Patricia Malik: Oh Baby Girl

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

Leyana Gavin: Untitled

charcoal illustration

Isabella Cozzone: Charcoal Singer

Drawing of a vibrant city street.

Christina Nasios: Untitled

painting

Anonymous: Is There An Afterworld?

Charlotte Foster: Us

painting of two young children in blue dresses sitting on ground in front of brown background, one crying

Anonymous: Tata & Nana

A clump of light purple fingers reaching up out of the center of a plant.

Fay Jenson: Growth

A colorful rendering of two faces meant to represent two perspectives of one person.

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled

White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled

shouting face

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 1

A dark face created from plaster with red dripping from the eyes and nose to represent blood.

Jonah Arnold: Untitled

person in glasses shaving their head

Edana Lynch: Drawing from Photography

White tray, section with CD with a circular center

Alexis Rivas: Congratulations

Cartoon cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

Bridget Berg: Cheshire Cat

collage of a White House in a green field with blue sky

Juan Popoca: Untitled

Black and white pencil drawing of a service dog

Edana Lynch: Service Dog

watercolor drawing natural nature

Elsie Conwell: Untitled

Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night

two portraits, one in color.

Edana Lynch: Portraits

Person wearing red hoodie facing away from the viewer.

Christopher Reynoso: The bigger Picture

2 portraits, one in blue felt, one in purple felt.

Alyssa Argent: They Felt

Anonymous: The Lady

Small figures, in groups of identical fours, are sculpted out of card stock. They are modeled after well known Disney princesses turned into feminists.

Nicole Vasilkovski: Not Your Royalty

Simon Jose: Beef Curry and Boli

Vibrant painting with human figures and fire and city background.

Sarai Mata: Can’t Go Back

Patricia Malik: Untitled

Drawing of a colorful figure

Sueyin Gonzalez: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

ceramic sculpture

Miranda Reese: Goldfish

mixed media piece

Maeve Donlin: Untitled

A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach

Drawing of person standing in front of a magenta "2020" spotlighted.

Anonymous: 2020

Kaya Song: Flower in Reverberating

Illustration of green handheld console

Andreen Marie Isidoro: GameGirl

Embroidery of the word "Empowered" on a pink background.

Lia Andrikopoulos: Empowered

Black and white painting of a girl over the repeated text "remember to slay"

Emily Cuevas: Remember to Slay

Abstract red and blue print

Estefania Pena: Worthpoint

Hailey Sandoval: Brain Nest

Black, white, and red print of organic shapes with voids througout.

Laszlo Katona: Petri dish print #1 “multiplicities of fungus”

black and white drawing and collage with string, possum, and a person miming with their hand.

Emily Tragarz-Witek: EMBED

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

Micaela Martinez: Enter

Print of many different colors of flowers overlaying each other in ink all over the page.

Son Nguyen: Sea of Flowers II

Tree with small white figures and rain fall.

Emilia Mleczek: Rainfall

An embroidered rose in the blooming stage with a light yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence

Edana Lynch: Pen Still Life

sketch of person sitting on office chair

Edana Lynch: Halloween 1

Leg and foot with monster teeth spiraling across it

Isabella Wietrzak: Monster Mouth

Drawing with multiple items on a plate.

Dannah Agno: Untitled

A mixed media collage of a fashion drawing of a white dress with ruffles around the seams. There are extra notes, fabric swatches, and drawings around the figure.

Tabitha Shaheen: Summer Waves Dress

Embroidery of a house on white fabric

Mary Martorano: Where the Heart Is

Anonymous: Repressuation

colored pencil illustration

Natalia Rak: Untitled

painting of a brick wall with white graffiti of a goat on it

Jimmy Santiago: Greatness

Abstraction of beach with sand, water, and waves made of strung beads.

Anakin Morris: Shoal, interrupted

Penguin in a suit and hat

Cole Kirk: Who’s in Paris

Made of paper construction. A monarch butterfly is carried by a purple and white hot air balloon over a pink and white background page.

Nicole Kucharska: Visitor

Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled

mixed media piece

Henry Stensland: Untitled

Jellyfish line pattern stitched in a swatch of blue cloth.

Natalia Penalbert: Tingling Water

Edana Lynch: Green Metal

sketch of person with their arm over their head

Edana Lynch: Halloween 2

hand glasses

Connor Weber: Living Book

Magdalena Tomaszewski: Untitled

Blue and purple plants and flowers layered to create a wave.

Jessica Krklus: Wave

Drawing of person's head with red hatching on yellow paper

Edana Lynch: Woman in Red

Painting of a red crab with a sandy bottom and blue water. There's text reading "el cangrejo"

Joshua Rivera-Vazquez: El Cangrejo

A sculptural piece of a person with a flower head sitting cross-legged.

Emely Ramos: Ceramics

person kneeling in front of a checkered wall

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 2

Isabella Romero: Flower

Painting of snails on mushrooms

Alana Smith: Snails on Mushrooms

pencil drawings of faces and magazines

Edana Lynch: Works in Series

Edana Lynch: Kills

Two dancers.

Kelsey Duong: Heartfelt REpose

Central focus on orange dressed indivifual with yellow bow

Sarah Shaweabkeh: Untitled

Picture of modeled brain with pins in it

Ivan Mendes: Pinned Brain

Colorful embroidery

Anonymous: City Stones

Embroidery on white fabric of 3 groups of people standing together

Anonymous: Fading

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

"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.

Jennifer Trejo: Not Bruno

Drawing of person with pink skin wearing a helmet with a gold necklace hanging from it.

Anonymous: Crazy Diamond

mixed media piece

Lia Andrikopoulos: Tutti Frutti

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

Embroidery of a doorway with tree, reflected vertically on quilt.

Lynn Tran: The Colors of Emotions

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

Kevin Cardenas: Endless Frustration

Drawing of a sliced watermelon.

Anonymous: Fruta y Bandera

Painting of a girl with words around her

Alyssa Argent: Skye

Drawing of Mayor Lori lightfoot with flames in the background

Emilia Mleczek: Lori Lightfoot

Black and white trees on a dusky desaturated blue sky

Christina Nasios: Traveling

Mixed media artwork featuring pink haired mermaid under water with treasure

Anonymous: Treasure

dragon

Angel Boratynska: Ice Dragon

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

Tyler Vasylenko: Beautiful Chaos

Rapper Young Thug on two sides of the paper, one side he is upside down

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug

Two panel illustration of two people talking on the phone

Ruby Grant: Untitled

portrait

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 5

the colors of emotions

Lynn Tran: The Colors of Emotions

Jennifer Trejo: Schwinning

Landscape of a river an mountains.

Anonymous: Winter Landscape

Painting of old man with long gray hair and brown shirt.

Quintin Nadig: Richard Foreman

Painting of a woman sitting in a hammock under trees

Anonymous: Untitled

Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree

Edana Lynch: Introspection

A sculpture of white hands surrounded by plants.

Avery O’Brien: Reaching Out From the Closet

A person's head is shown to be opened, containing another head inside.

Linda Bulik: INSIDE

pencil illustration

Jazmin Valle: Self Portrait

sketch of person texting

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 4

Natural colored canvas over the shoulder totebag with embroidery of person holding a jar on a blue background. Interior had "I'm adorable" painted in blue.

Gracey Niedzielak: I’m Adorable

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

Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled

Digital painting of a face cry9ing flowers, hands draped over the mouth.

Janessa Howell: Keeping your Emotions in

Laelani Perez: Murphy

Anonymous: Rattling

A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby

digital painting of a young woman in black and white

Laelani Perez: My Lady Ophelia

Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá

Christopher Argueta: Caldo de Res

Anonymous: David Hockney Piece

Andreen Marie Isidoro: Us vs. The World

Digital drawing of a room with pink carpet. There is a wooden desk and chair, pictures on the wall, and a skateboard and guitar next to the desk.

Anonymous: Quarantine

Nadia Walker: Dream Perspective

Collage of sepia-toned photos of phonograph with person in a checked top shouting into the cone. There is an iridescent background.

Annamaria Castellucci Cabral: Loud

Collage and drawing of person's underwear

Edana Lynch: Collage/Reframe

Silhouette of a person riding a horse on a pink and red background

Victoria Greco: A Dark Horse’s Journey at Dawn

Black embroidery of two people with swimsuits leaping.

Sasha Spain: one

drawing of dark ghostly shadow spirit wrapped around a person, lurking over her.

Ava Kopier: Around the Corner

Bones represent fossil fuels going through an engine and dripping out at the bottom

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork

mixed media piece

Julia Baran: Set on Nature

Brown spraypainted bust of the Statue of Liberty

Sarah Byrne: Untitled

pencil drawing of The Bean in Chicago

Emma Slotowski: The Bean

Painting with clown split in half color wise, one side red and green, the other side blue and white. Featuring christmas hats, stripes, and splattered paint background.

Owen O: Holliday Holly

Hand in white glove touching colorful butterflies.

Annamaria Castellucci Cabral: Angel

Miniature sculpture with a bed and desk made with earth tones and a variety of texture.

Serenity Torres: clueless.

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There

poetry written

Charlotte Foster: Unsettled

Face in shadow, surrounded by blue flowers

Veronica Kozak: I feel blue

Interior view of Wrigley Field looking towards the bleachers and scoreboard

Victoria Greco: Bleacher Bums

Digital drawing of person at a table in the dark with a sign that says "Don't Play with Ouija Boards" above them.

Kaley Kmiec: Don’t Play With Ouija Boards

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan

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