Taft HS – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

A sculpture of white hands surrounded by plants.

Avery O’Brien: Reaching Out From the Closet

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

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence

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

Jonah Arnold: Untitled

Edana Lynch: Kills

Kelsey D.: To Fish is to Dream

Abstract quilt with earth-toned fabric

Amanda Nadig: We Are Going To Destroy This House

Meta N: bows

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

Jessica Krklus: Wave

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

Lia Andrikopoulos: Empowered

An embroidered bloomed rose with a yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adulthood

mixed media piece

Maeve Donlin: Untitled

Penguin in a suit and hat

Cole Kirk: Who’s in Paris

Drawing with multiple items on a plate.

Dannah Agno: Untitled

Anonymous: Repressuation

pencil drawing of The Bean in Chicago

Emma Slotowski: The Bean

Edana Lynch: Introspection

Edana Lynch: Birthday

Landscape of a river an mountains.

Anonymous: Winter Landscape

Christopher Argueta: Caldo de Res

sketch of person sitting on office chair

Edana Lynch: Halloween 1

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

Fay Jenson: Growth

Black embroidery of two people with swimsuits leaping.

Sasha Spain: one

Anonymous: Rattling

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

person in glasses shaving their head

Edana Lynch: Drawing from Photography

poetry written

Charlotte Foster: Unsettled

Hailey Sandoval: Brain Nest

Central focus on orange dressed indivifual with yellow bow

Sarah Shaweabkeh: 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

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

Lila C: A Feminine Experience

ceramic sculpture

Miranda Reese: Goldfish

three portraits in colored pencil

Adele Roberts: Angle

A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby

Colorful embroidery

Anonymous: City Stones

Embroidery of a house on white fabric

Mary Martorano: Where the Heart Is

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

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

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug

pencil illustration

Jazmin Valle: Self Portrait

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

hand glasses

Connor Weber: Living Book

Brown spraypainted bust of the Statue of Liberty

Sarah Byrne: Untitled

Edana Lynch: Pen Still Life

Anonymous: Untitled

sketch of person with their arm over their head

Edana Lynch: Halloween 2

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

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled

Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree

charcoal illustration

Isabella Cozzone: Charcoal Singer

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

Anonymous: 2020

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

Emily Tragarz-Witek: EMBED

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

Edana Lynch: Woman in Red

colored pencil illustration

Natalia Rak: Untitled

Mia T.: My American Dream

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

Anonymous: Fresh and Vibrant

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

Anonymous: Margarita

Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled

Illustration of green handheld console

Andreen Marie Isidoro: GameGirl

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach

Nadia Walker: Dream Perspective

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

Emily Cuevas: Remember to Slay

Anonymous: Virtual Angel

Interior view of Wrigley Field looking towards the bleachers and scoreboard

Victoria Greco: Bleacher Bums

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

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

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork

Skeleton standing next to a road at sunset

Anonymous: The Road

Two panel illustration of two people talking on the phone

Ruby Grant: Untitled

Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There

Drawing of a vibrant city street.

Christina Nasios: Untitled

Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding

Mia T.: Operation Save the Planet

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

Anonymous: Tata & Nana

Abstract red and blue print

Estefania Pena: Worthpoint

Anonymous: The Lady

Painting of a woman sitting in a hammock under trees

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood

Edana Lynch: Green Metal

painting

Anonymous: Is There An Afterworld?

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

Alyssa Argent: They Felt

Face in shadow, surrounded by blue flowers

Veronica Kozak: I feel blue

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

Ava Kopier: Around the Corner

portrait

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 5

Drawing of a colorful figure

Sueyin Gonzalez: Untitled

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

Quintin Nadig: Richard Foreman

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

Micaela Martinez: Enter

White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled

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

Samara Torres Contreras: Octavo

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

Black and white pencil drawing of a service dog

Edana Lynch: Service Dog

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

Kay Kmiec: The Creature in The Shadows

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

Anonymous: Crazy Diamond

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

Janessa Howell: Keeping your Emotions in

Leg and foot with monster teeth spiraling across it

Isabella Wietrzak: Monster Mouth

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

Juan Popoca: Untitled

Abstract quilt of grays and creams.

Amanda Nadig: Charcoal Screen Printed Wall Quilt

mixed media piece

Lia Andrikopoulos: Tutti Frutti

mixed media piece

Henry Stensland: Untitled

two portraits, one in color.

Edana Lynch: Portraits

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

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

Ezra G: Purity

mixed media piece

Julia Baran: Set on Nature

Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled

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

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

Embroidery on white fabric of 3 groups of people standing together

Anonymous: Fading

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

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait

Jennifer Trejo: Not Bruno

Hand in white glove touching colorful butterflies.

Annamaria Castellucci Cabral: Angel

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

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

Lynn Tran: The Colors of Emotions

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

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

Son Nguyen: Sea of Flowers II

Sarah A.: Thinking in Color

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

Patricia Malik: Oh Baby Girl

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

shouting face

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 1

Person wearing red hoodie facing away from the viewer.

Christopher Reynoso: The bigger Picture

Patricia Malik: Untitled

Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night

Painting of snails on mushrooms

Alana Smith: Snails on Mushrooms

A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast

Laelani Perez: Murphy

Tyler Vasylenko: Beautiful Chaos

Collage and drawing of person's underwear

Edana Lynch: Collage/Reframe

Drawing of Mayor Lori lightfoot with flames in the background

Emilia Mleczek: Lori Lightfoot

White tray, section with CD with a circular center

Alexis Rivas: Congratulations

Leyana Gavin: Untitled

Tree with small white figures and rain fall.

Emilia Mleczek: Rainfall

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

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Owen O.: Minny the Mime

the colors of emotions

Lynn Tran: The Colors of Emotions

Magdalena Tomaszewski: Untitled

Kaya Song: Flower in Reverberating

Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas

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

Serenity Torres: clueless.

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

Victoria Greco: A Dark Horse’s Journey at Dawn

"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.

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan

person kneeling in front of a checkered wall

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 2

sketch of person texting

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 4

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

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

Painting of a girl with words around her

Alyssa Argent: Skye

Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled

watercolor drawing natural nature

Elsie Conwell: Untitled

Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá

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

dragon

Angel Boratynska: Ice Dragon

Cartoon cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

Bridget Berg: Cheshire Cat

sketch of faces

Edana Lynch: Sketchbook 3

Jennifer Trejo: Schwinning

black letters on a cream background

Ella Chambers: Remember

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

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

Fay Jenson: Clarity

pencil drawings of faces and magazines

Edana Lynch: Works in Series

Drawing of buildings with plants and flowers.

Anonymous: Untitled

Mixed media artwork featuring pink haired mermaid under water with treasure

Anonymous: Treasure

Isabella Romero: Flower

Edana Lynch: Lysol

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

Linda Bulik: INSIDE

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

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

Anonymous: David Hockney Piece

digital painting of a young woman in black and white

Laelani Perez: My Lady Ophelia

Simon Jose: Beef Curry and Boli

Jellyfish line pattern stitched in a swatch of blue cloth.

Natalia Penalbert: Tingling Water

Owen O.: lenny the yeti

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

Picture of modeled brain with pins in it

Ivan Mendes: Pinned Brain

Sarah A.: Cyber Wing

Andreen Marie Isidoro: Us vs. The World

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

Black and white trees on a dusky desaturated blue sky

Christina Nasios: Traveling

Map of Chicago made out of words and letters

Anonymous: Untitled

Vibrant painting with human figures and fire and city background.

Sarai Mata: Can’t Go Back

Charlotte Foster: Us

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

Jack Clark: Bee

Two dancers.

Kelsey Duong: Heartfelt REpose

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