Senior Portfolio – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

Aniyah Laning: Untitled

Close up image of reflection of person in spoon

Scarlett T: Reflections

A pen and color pencil illustration of a building, with people walking outside and the colorful word "Cuitzeo".

Giselle Zacarias: Mi Pueblito Magico

women in front of green eyes

Elizabeth Lenczowski: Brown Eyes, Green Eyes

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

Dalila Mendez: Embodiment

Mixed media abstract artwork featuring multi-colored sunrise background with silhouette in foreground wearing large hat with another person kneeling on the brim

Anonymous: Untitled

Bright warm light spilling out the window of a house into a dark blue night

Genecis Gomez: Untitled

Cabinet with representations of different rooms inside

Macy O’Donnell: Rooms

Landscape of a river an mountains.

Anonymous: Winter Landscape

Pine tree

Anonymous: Untitled

Drawing of a human figure atop of a collage of smaller sketches

Giselle Raigosa: King’s Domain

Oli Fuentes: Music is Life

Lyrics from Juan Gabriel stitched and drawn on canvas with a rainbow Pride flag in the lower right corner.

Lesli S Vargas: Pero Que Necesidad

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Hair

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

Anonymous: Primevere Elara

Digital artwork with red background featuring person with tail wings and long nails wearing black crop top and grey pants, boots and leather accessories.

Anonymous: I Wish It Was A Mirror

Photograph of a rusted red metal door set into faceless concrete walls, partially obscured by bare branches and reeds.

Matthew Balber: What Lies Beyond

Green dog on brown couch.

Anonymous: green eyed dog

Photograph of a sunset over a football game

Amina Cutahija: Sunset

Mixed media art of american flag with altered portions showing different patterns and phrases, burns, and bullet holes, including text "Tread Lightly" and "Consent of the Governed"

Alyssa A: Tread Lightly

two colorful faces surrounded by smaller drawings of material objects like dollar signs and watches and gold chains

Daniel Villalobos: Temporary Gratification

Photograph of a person painting. They wear a red, white and grey stripped polo shirt. They hold a paint palette in their left hand and a paint brush in their right up to the canvas. The painting is of a street scene.

Vicky Plange: Village of Strokes

Photograph of hands holding up flowers with tan and orange background

Anonymous: The Offering

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

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood

A blue yarn sculpture work with a ruffled texture.

Yousra Sadiq: The Rainforests of the Seas

self portrait of a young woman in charcoal

Esmeralda Avila-Marquez: Untitled

Digital art of a character looking at a glowing phone

Jessica Correa: Connected

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

Digital drawing of brightly colored birds on a brown background. Three rows, each with four birds in flight, fill the page.

Owen Sims: The Progression Collage

Photograph closely cropped on a glass with condensation and a leaf

Emaan Khan: I Finished My Drink!!!

Painting with yellow background of person with dark skin toned red with curly hair and glasses, wearing a blue shirt and jacket

Matthew W: My eyes

Painting of a woman with blonde hair, a white shirt and a pink dress staring to her right. A brown background is behind her.

Maude Preston: Self

Scary movie poster with gory body parts.

Arpit Sutaria: Red Eyes

Star night with yellow moon and text

Sarai Roman: First Love/ Late Spring

Tyler Vasylenko: Beautiful Chaos

Blue and purple toned digital artwork of backlit person surrounded by squiggly lines

Anonymous: Mocha Final choice project

girl scream

Camille Buren: Dog Will Hunt

Sketch drawings of various objects on a black background

Anonymous: I feel like the world is…

still life of American flag, hands, and other objects

Jessica Milagros Salinas Rodriguez: El Sueño Americano

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

Colorful drawing of a person with half the face melting with ice cream, pill bottle, and coors coming out of an EarPods.

Xeno Rivera: Health Doesn’t Discriminate

Digital art of person with box head sitting in robe in arm chair with dog and fireplace next to them

Crystal R: Good Hunting

painting of a wedding portrait surrounded by a ring of gold

Katherrin Billordo: Reunidos

Charcoal drawing of person with bun and flowered headband.

Mia Alvarez: Untitled

Ashley Quirarte: Stars

blue painting of a teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blue

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

Photograph of a person waving into a puddle reflection

Liv Greenfield: Reaching Out

Photo of a stone cherub opening a stone book with a light glowing from the center of the book, in front of a backdrop of fog.

David Toledo: Eyes That See All

John Eichten: Stars Aglow

Blue light with orange background

Nicolo Valentino: Half and Half

Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled

Photo of a figure standing in a garden under a trellis, in a purple dress, raking leaves.

Frances Depke: Dressed for the occasion

A detailed pen illustration of various elements related to Asian culture.

Jasmine Yau: Untitled

Aaliyah Borges: Sun Child

Anonymous: ME vs. ME

Portrait of person's face, their hand raised to chin, wearing a red flower in their hair, with yellow and pink flowers in front on a green background

Jasari Quince: Floral Essence

Plethora of neon green, pink, blues, and purples coloring anatomical pelvis with insect wings and antenna

Jiayi Chen: Pelvis and Newborn

Pixelated portrait of a person

Anina Alpert: Shifted Faces

Anonymous: Untitled

painting of 3 women connected by 3 different colors with a pink background.

Sakari Zephier: Soul Ties

Phone and face with mirror.

NyJah Scurlock: Longing for External Happiness

A drawing of shops on a street, with a person figure lying on the ground with a red circle on their chest.

Janelle Delangel: Back of the Yards

Abstract drawing of anime figures an comic boxes featuring characters and strips of film frantically wrapping through

Anonymous: Haunting Memories

Collage of sketches, texts, and other various materials

Heaven Carter: Mental Destruction

Bird with pink beak and green eyes.

Anonymous: Serious side-eye

Mixed media art made of blue and red marker and red sculptures depicting clasped hands, flowers, and other imagery

Karen A: Nectar of the Gods

Artwork with blue and tan background done in pastels with back of body in center adorned with flowers in black ink

Anonymous: Fragile

Black and white animation. Flashing scenes of a figure in hat chasing a bunny.

Anonymous: THE WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE

A sculpture of a frog resting on a lily-pad, within a lily-pad shaped pond.

Emily Chung: Leafy Harmony

Daniela Salgado: (Don’t) Leave Me Alone

Karolina Kawula: Zagunie, Laszki

Valiant samurai on the back of a maip dinosaur

Nived Karthik: Maip Rider

Malina Joyce: Summer Swings

Photograph of tree with house covered in ivy in the background

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence

Clay sculpture of anatomical heart with snake wrapped aroun it being held up by stand covered in gold gems

Anonymous: Strangled

Drawing of a bridge entering into a desert area

Anahi Alcala: Ersilia

Charlesa Thompson: Parallel Opposites

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

Acrylic painting of coral reef and an anchor

Jonathan Julian Castaneda Soto: Untitled

Katarzyna Lucja Jasiak: Trapped in Rhythm

A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast

Painted portrait of a person on a purple background

Genevieve Desch: Untitled

Landscape of orange sky with green mountains and a tree.

Anonymous: Naturally Peaceful

Renee Picard: Uncertainty

Two old men sitting on a CTA with a grainy filter over top

Stephanie Mendoza: Antique Memories – Baldies

collage of trees in multiple blocks of color

Jodie Ijemen: Untitled

painting of a person at a gas station, low vantage point. two cars, one red one blue.

Galia Quezada: Untitled

A painting of a young woman with streaks of gold in her hair

Jimmilee Kabba: My Hair is Gold

Close-up image of a leaf and its reflection arched above it.

Huda Darbo: The Complexity of Nature.

Colored pencil drawing of the front of a store with sign above door reading Valery's Resale with money flying out the door.

Anonymous: Valery’s Resale

Underwater view of a violinist reaching farther into the depths for a violin, with sheet music scattering in the water.

Nicholas Thomas: Sea of Music

painting of a skull with a dagger through ti

Judith Bolanos: Untitled

Mix of music notes, feathers, scribbles with an eye in the center

Mia Morales: You is EYE

clock

Anonymous: Top of locker

Skeleton blowing bubble in an office

Alexis Moreno Torres: Remembrance

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

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

Sun drenched photo of a city street and two people talking

Lucia Urbaszewski: Sunset

Painting of sunset on canvas with black sculpture and foliage in foreground

Ricardo P: Dark

Girl removing make up

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug

Lev Kaplan: Obsidian Oasis

Faces and grey building.

Anonymous: Xinjiang detention camp, China

Black and white photograph of the Chicago Theater Marquee

Alex Land: Home

Charlotte Foster: Us

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

Azriel Mesa: Susanna and the Elders Figure Study

Tlaloc Rodriguez: Untitled

Photograph of what appears to be two men in masks. One holds the other across the shoulder and white flowers pass over both of them.

Nicholas Lalowski: Satori’s Dullness

Photo of basketball hood from a lower perspective with shoes hanging off of the rim and a blue sky in the background.

Shawn Bridges: Above The Rim

CTA

Andre Mendoza: Pigeon Vogue

Two people through the streets of Mexico

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled

A strawberry

Alaina Martin: Strawberry

Two women hugging in black and white photo

Serena Coleman: Untitled

Person raising a print up that matches the print on their shirt, and using the artwork to obscure their face.

Idris Castillo: Untitled

Trees

Anonymous: Untitled

Older woman sewing designs on fabric

Saskya Lema Lema: Warmi Awana

Painting of Latinx street vendor selling chicharrones

Mya Corral: Elotera

Two photos of grayscale sides of buildings, framed with blue tiles in an abstract pattern linked between the two.

Kate Gallagher: Window to the City

Jacquelin Borreguero: The moon

"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 woman of color

Tamia Criss: Internal Conflict

Blues with dark faces.

Yareli Vaquera: Lost Souls

Photograph of a flower with pink petals

Galilea Muniz: The Flower

An Aseprite Animation

Eliya Torres: Oyasumi

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

Romina Greco: Self Object Portrait

digital image of a young man where you can see his exposed lungs with flowers growing on them

Rita Ni: Floral Invasion

Black ceramic pot with decorations

Ashley Padilla: Untitled

Portrait of a person with red hair

Robin Lockhart: Self Portrait

Two people sitting on the ground and leaning against a couch in a domestic space. Person on the left is wearing a white dress and person on the right is wearing black pants and a blue and white stripped shirt. There are teapots, teacups, oranges, candles, and a board game on the floor.

Francesca Neibel-Spruill: Spying on the Doubling Cube

coin necklace

Angélica Albárran Romo: Ripening

Painting of a cow's face

Phia Morris: Convulsion

Azriel Villanueva: Coffee Break

Drawing of a t-shirt. Front depicting a doctor holding money outside a hospital while a potential patient calls for help out of frame. The back shows this patient in a red hoodie under a rain cloud asking for help and looking at a huge hospital bill.

Lizbeth Botello: Calling out America!

Anonymous: Untitled

Mixed media with white background and abstract black lines painted on it. Red clay flower attached in middle of canvas

Aya M: Untitled

People walking along street past boarded up windows

Charlesa Thompson: Loud cries in the name of injustice

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

Ashanti Hicks: Challxn

Photographic of Bahai temple from low vantage point, a flower in focus in the foreground.

Mustafa Hasan: HASAN-BAHAI TEMPLE

Photograph of a necklace

Anonymous: Motion (1 of 1)

Digital fantasy world artwork with knight sword and helmet in foreground

Khadijah S: The Dream of a Red Knight

Skull with 3 humans and flowers.

Tam Tran: Invisible Danger

Person wearing grey hoodie and scoop neck shirt putting their hands through their hair

Tamia Criss: Tay

Cultural ceramic with a tea light and family photo inside

Aeledth Ramirez Tellez: Para ellos

green ink print of chains

Joseph Morco: Flow Through the Chain

Up close photograph of a red plank of wood

Anonymous: Spikes

Black and white: Distorted clock

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

fiber art image of buildings in Chinatown, Chicago.

Izumi Phuah: Chinatown

Mixed media collage with cardboard background and layered images of a dessert, cactuses, a woman with blonde hair in blue dress with hands on hips, and man getting out of police car showing lights on top

Anonymous: Your Reno 911 Piece

A necklace created by adding red and black elements to a bottle cap.

Zora Alleyne: Sangria

animated painting of a young boy with his head floating away from his body

Kaylynn Stoudmire: Bloo Boy

Anonymous: Untitled

Scene from Venice embroidered on blue fabric. Orange and red buildings line a blue canal on either side with a boat in the center.

Mayrav Bader: Trip in Venice

Josephine Schoendorff: Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux

Styrofoam skull

Anonymous: #Social

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

Yingqi Jiang: Boba

Painting with bottom 2/3rds a deep red and top in hues of blue and grey. What resembles the back of a head with long, dark hair rises up at the red horizon line and spills out onto the red.

Jordan Brown: see of red

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

Joshua Rivera-Vazquez: El Cangrejo

Meta N: bows

Girl with scissors at a birthday party.

Kayla Aguilar: Jealous of the Birthday

Larry Tate: Lens

photo of magnifying glass on wood table

Yesenia G: Magnifying Glass

Mixed media collage of comic book pages with featured words POW BANG BOOM KAPOW and man in red costume in foreground

Fyona H: One Mans Story

An image of a sail boat on lake Michigan

Anonymous: Sailing

Neon smiley face on a black background

Anonymous: Mellow

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

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

digital painting of a young woman in black and white

Laelani Perez: My Lady Ophelia

Yellow Champion hoodie with a floral arm

Juan Gasca: YELLOW CHAMPION HOODIE

Drawing: large purple figure sits center on pink and yellow tiled floor. Pink and green plants grow from their head. A slightly open door is on the right of the drawing.

Daniela Loza: No smile No sorrow

Portrait with broken glass.

Madeline Lensegrav: Shattered

Mixed media collage of different parts of greek statue

Sadie M: Aphrodite

Turtle in blue water

Lia Rodriguez: How Can Tragedy Be Beautiful?

Two figures on a red and yellow background

Anonymous: Untitled

Red and pink dancers are painted at various angles on a blue canvas with green dancers in the background.

Madison Rozwat: Dancing

Sculpture of deer head with flowers near ears

Marjorie M: Untitled

Drawing of a girl looking up at the stars.

Lauren Brogan: Girl and the Stars

Close-up photo of fake nails painted pink with gem and moon patterns

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Rachet, Ghetto, Beautiful (pt 2)

black and white photograph of back of a person in jersey number 77 and helmet standing with hands on hips

George H: Dog Days

White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled

Photo of a rhino at zoo

Flavio Martin Hermosillo: Dyin Breed

Photograph of downtown Chicago, featuring fog over the tops of buildings and a prominent, blurred "L" train rushing by in the foreground.

Isabelle Snyder: Rushed

Digital artwork of anatomical heart with split coloring of red and white

Anonymous: El corazon

repurposed 3D doll with added sculptural elements

Jeanette Atkins : Lait Sucre (Doll Custom)

Skeleton version of the Birth of Venus Painting

Amanda Smithivas: Birth of Venus

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

Edmond Abraham: Psychedelic Selfie

Abstract sculpture with white plaster base, rising up with wire, colorful plastic beads, ribbon and paper.

Annabel Multer: imagined paradise

Person with face pressed against plastic, hand out, eyes closed, mouth open. Black and white photograph.

Ericka Woods: EMOTIONALISM

Photograph of a woman washing an air fryer with sud filled water

Isabella Reyes: delically

Abstract blurry photograph of dark street illuminated by streetlight with bright green trees

Anonymous: Late Night Trip

Abstract painting. Black lines border sections of white, yellow, blue, and other colors.

Lisette Medina Mora: Bessie Klaus

3 buildings with blue sky

Ashley Calderon: Untitled

Animation of person in purple top and yellow shoes turning and opening an umbrella.

Kiara Fufunan: rituals

photograph of two football players in red and black jerseys and helmets shaking hands

Mia Z: Untitled

Photograph of inside of vintage car with blue and white interior, large steering wheel, and light under dashboard

Anonymous: Behind the wheel

Abstract painting of a young woman's face

Mia Neiman: My Happy Girl

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

Jack Clark: Bee

painting of a cornfield, a small white church far off on the horizon. a deep blue sky.

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Anywhere, USA

Painting with blue background and title Every Empire Has A Downfall across top in white text featuring multiple different crying faces of people with red white and blue rope tied around their mouths.

Alyssa A: Stripped and Striped

A large face shouting at a person with their hand on their head looking exasperated.

Yanely Castellanos: A Battle You Can’t See

Fold out multi-colored artwork with black lines across folds featuring blues greens pinks and yellows blended together

Kelly A: Fold Out Book

A flag with black and blue that depicts barbed wire and a butterfly/

Zumari Velazquez: Flying Across Boarders

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

Linda Bulik: INSIDE

photograph of a set table with cutlery and a window view in the background

Ivette Montalvo: LeTour

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

Adela Velic: Feeling Blue

Amesyah Flowers: Eye Study

Nadia Walker: Dream Perspective

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

Kevin Cardenas: Endless Frustration

dark photograph with lit up cta blue line train in center

Nathan U: Dark Night at the Blue Line

photograph of red and yellow bird sculpture

Yasmyn S: Sunset Serenade

colorful painting of two jellyfish

Gianna Giammona: in the abyss

Two males: The man on the left with a read shirt holding a Puerto Rican flag and one on the right with a blue shirt holding an American flag looking up at him with words "Our Dream" written on the top right corner of the drawing

Anonymous: Untitled

Shadowy view of someone's feet stepping into a sliver of light on a public street.

Nathan Chan: Midstep

Digital Image of Person sitting on concrete block in park with refrigerated cart in front of him

Anonymous: El Sueño Americano

Eyeball with mushroom, butterfly and mouth piece.

Lyric Roy: Untitled

Blues, greys and pinks, abstract piece.

Anonymous: Despair

abstract painting of the interior of a an el car

Adam Wheatley: Untitled

Charcoal Drawing of a person with their hands in their face

Melissa Brito: Exposed

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan

Image of male sitting in the middle of a field in a chair, topless, and with face blurred

Irobun Igiehon: ANGST (Igiehon_Irobun)

Chalk drawing of Breonna Taylor in a red sweater with blue background

Bailey Harris: Breonna Taylor

Person wearing red hoodie facing away from the viewer.

Christopher Reynoso: The bigger Picture

Motorcycle on a hill with stars.

Anonymous: Untitled

Black background with white outlines of a family

Sakari Zephier: Family Lines

Collage of various darker schemed images with the words "Open your mind" in the center

Anonymous: when they were together, they were in heaven

Abstract multi-colored artwork depicting the stress of homework and applying to college

Aiva H: Untitled

Painting of upside-down figure with blue hair, white masquerade mask and red shapes above

Autumn Jackson: Can you hear my voice

Drawing of Mayor Lori lightfoot with flames in the background

Emilia Mleczek: Lori Lightfoot

painting of a woman's back with large eyes on it

Tatiana Espinoza: Self Repair

Painting of strawberries with white mold

Fiona Lyons-Carlson: Molding Strawberries

Photograph of doll sculpture with dark skin and large white bag. Doll is wearing pink shirt and denim skirt with accessories by their feet.

Anonymous: The Colorful Monster (Mini Me)

Digital drawing of a person cutting their hair with scissors

Kylin Thomas: R.I.P Dreads

Perla Reynoso: Perla’s Postres Logo and Food Truck

Drawing of soul food flowing through the African Baobab tree. A colorful blue, pink, and green background is behind.

Noah Demus: Universoul

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

Abstract blue, yellow, and red cubes stacked on one another

Adnan Muminhodzic: Watercolor

A black and white photo of a person walking on a street between buildings on a snowy day.

Alyssa Calderon: Snowfall

A person looking into a broken mirror

Sam Meece-Potowski: Fractured Portrait

Drawing with person at center. Above them are many swirls and the word sweets. Various flags with symbols are on their right and left and the word autism and asberger are on their right.

Nelly Dominguez: Self Portrait

pencil drawing of three people holding up large frame around them with bees on it

Saul H: Golden times

photograph of a girl laying in the green grass

Violet Payne: Basking in the Lakes Breeze

black and white photograph of preson standing on rocks

Abigail L: Boy in the wild

car animation

David Wilson: Splash of Color

Painting of a dock in front of mountains

Anonymous: Docks

A subject with decorations in her afro hairstyle, and party decorations laid out around her hair.

Ty-Carmel Elsa: Hair deco

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

Anonymous: Third Eye Collective

photograph closely cropped of rusty chains

Isabelle Garcia: Weathered Links

Surreal painting of person on a yellow background

Frida Mejia: Wandering eye

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

Ezra G: Purity

Acrylic painting of clown with blue-painted eyes and a red hat among trees. Atop the painting, a bleeding heart sits with fake blood pooling on the painting's surface

Heidi L Wier: JWG

Drawing of two hands hovering over a monarch butterfly with the words "a Inmigración" written below.

Nathalia Vazquez: La Inmigración

a photograph of an over the shoulder perspective of a basketball being shot into a basketball hoop

Chinwe Nkwocha: The One with the Oroma Ball

DJ Murray: What Nourishes Me Destroys Me

Painting with split sides, one red and yellow toned, and the other blue and black toned

Jefferson E: Untitled

Chloe Mitchell: Childhood Home

book stuff

Gabriela Vargas: Desk

A stick with a butterfly on it.

Stefanie De La Cruz Aldana: Metamorfosis

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

Digital drawing of a winged creature on a black background

Oscar Medina: Broken Wings

a painting of a grandmother in a kitchen

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: Adorn

landscapes

Emma Lane: Coconut Worlds

digital image of a person with finger to lips

Joseph Young: Sheep

Madison Rozwat: Obscured Sunrise

Painting of a person smashing their face with their hands.

Mya Corral: Blink

Jada Mukes: Colorism

Colorful drawing of hands embracing a person's head

Ethan Rodriguez: Loving Hands

Photograph of a black shoe stepping into a puddle that splashes out from under the foot.

Seamus Moore: Step

pen and crayon drawing of a west side residence with child-like drawn flowers around it

Mia Santoyo: West Side Innocence

Photograph of person wearing lace top holding mask in front of face in the mirror

Addison G: Who?

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

Taliyah Taylor: Hairitage

photograph through a glass

Stefany Garcia: Untitled

digital animated painting of a humanoid creature

Kelby McMorris: Creature

painting of two legs wearing strapped slip on shoes

Tiffany Delgado: Walking Culture

Colored pencil drawing. Still life of bananas, avocado, and apples on a brownish red surface with a red background.

Hong Nguyen: Untitled

Airplane flies through clouds with buildings peering through and people pointing down at the plane

Harper Norman: Plane Travel

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

Photograph: in focus is a green toy truck on a road. In the background is a brick apartment building. Perspective is manipulated to give illusion the toy car is actually to scale of a real car.

Anonymous: Unavailable Parking Space

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

Mysterious painting of a portion of a womans face with blue and tan colors and dark shadows.

Sophia A: Lost in Blues

Drawing of a tired woman with a yellow background. Collages onto are pink flowers.

Izzi Bertsch: Untitled

Image of long grass in foreground with blue sky and powerlines in background

Kirk L: Power Lines

Painting of a street in monochrome red

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 1

Person sitting in a cozy room writing at a desk

Lillianne Fratt: Untitled

abstract ink drawing featuring many shapes and marks

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Juan Popoca: Untitled

Abstracted futuristic cityscape.

Anonymous: Travelposter

Several dice

Matthew Minczuk: Dice Depth of Field

Painting of green and purple leaves.

Mahdi Yousef Muhamad: Green Blossom

Digital Art. A background of blue with pink eyes is interrupted by an ambigous orange and purple figure. On the figures upper chest, the words "No One is Safe" are listed.

Ronghe Chen: Eyes on the Influencer

A chair with a blanket draped over the back, with a notebook and pencil on the seat.

Zhouqi Shao: All Is Ready

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

Son Nguyen: Sea of Flowers II

Lake picture with black lines on the sky.

Isabella Flores: Untitled

Black and white: Side rearview mirror with a distorted image of a street

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

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

Cassius Palacio: Rushed Moment or Guassian Blur

Marionette Doll sculpture of person in pink dress, crown, and pink shoes.

Guadalupe F: Celeste

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

Photograph of three disco balls on wood floor reflecting

Anonymous: Disco

Digital artwork of person laying on translucent purple surface in space with planet in background.

Jayrelene M: Dreams

colorful painting of a human body with images and objects within it

Mykérinos: The Organized Playground

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

Aksel Juarez Mejia: Out of My mind

Colorful drawing of a girl with blue hair

Kenia Cardenas: Untitled

Illustration of a hand flipping a red coin on a purple/grey background

Anonymous: coinflip

Digital blue and pink skin on male and female.

Alexander Bon Yabes: Untitled

Digital image of a Santa hat surrounded by elves

Fannie Yu: Untitled

Photo of sculptures including hinged box with stars and three other small star pieces

Eve O: Star collection

Monochromatic orange photograph at a dramatic angle mainly of the subject's jawline and right ear.

Karen Hernandez: Untitled

Colorful illustration of two characters fighting

Christopher Rodriguez: Untitled

Marionette sculpture of clown in black dress

Anonymous: Untitled

Angry dog look down at bowl outlined in green with the words "Super Groovy" plastered in front

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You

Alex Chitnis: Am I Going Crazy?

floating person

Analise Briseno: Untitled

galaxy eye

Brooke Hayes: It Takes A Village

Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled

Black and white drawing of forest with many bare trees.

Samuel Vite: Headless Horseman

drawn portrait of young girl looking into shattered mirror with fragments of paint keys, mic, musical notes, food.

Mariya Walker: Untitled

photo of a young woman seated backwards in school chair wearing a face covering

Alenis Cuzco: Prisoner

mixed media sculpture of cigarette box and small cigarettes made of paper with messages written inside

Ta’Kirah K: Urn pt.1

oil pastel drawing of a gas mask

Caleb Sawyer: Untitled

photo of sunny, green park, two little kids walking in it.

Jumani Rogers: Park Dwelling

Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree

Loteria card of anti violence.

Rudy Vargas: La Violencia

Black and white photograph of a subject's neck, including multiple chain necklaces and a t-shirt.

Makiyah Holloway-Dudley: Friend

Multi-colored pastel artwork with flames on one side and water on other, with person in middle, sun behind him, and bird above him.

Andres M: Sun Wukong

Jaylen Reed: Red Cone Revenge

drawing of a person reading in bed by nightstand lamp, with a large blue blanket.

Zhouqi Shao: Every Night Pt.2

Mixed media art with pink background and 3 dimensional cake with blue icing, and yellow inside on a white plate

Niyah-Li W: Is it fake or cake?

Colorful painting of a dog

Al Gasca: ZUZU

photograph of person shooting a basket wearing blue shirt and shorts

Heorhiy K: Hoops of Hope

Collage with a variety of colors and textures including a face.

Sofia Staudenmaier: Untitled

A collage incorporating journal writing and photos juxtaposed against it.

Harrison Brennan: Luca all Over

Photo of a river with trees on a bridge.

Nayely Robledo: Untitled

Bright yellows, oranges, reds, and blacks used to show a cat sitting amongst different ingredients.

Ruby Reddy: Sous-Chef

Anonymous: Heritage

Multi-colored marker drawing of creature in long blue robews and hat surrounded by szwirling colors and other monsters

Anonymous: Torrent of circumstance

Jamal Parnell: Untitled

Triptych portraits of two people and a teddybear.

Angelina Cofer: In the matter of Erica Deeman

Nicolas Cabrera: Skullution Animation

Body behind a purple curtain – can only see the legs and left arm. A piano is to their left.

Isaac Perez: Temptation & Desperation

Dramatically lit still life of flowers and a mask.

Madison Grant: Windows to the soul

Mixed media artwork featuring pink haired mermaid under water with treasure

Anonymous: Treasure

dress that is constructed out of leaves and flowers on a mannequin

Rebecca Burns: Garden of Lies

Lake and blue sky

Anonymous: Untitled

hand sewn denim jeans

Juan Gasca: Jeans

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

Aruba Awan: Untitled

Photograph of a girl blowing out candles on a cake. The candles spell 18

Jocelyne Estrada: Adulthood-2

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

Susan Zhao: Guardian of Nature

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

Cindy Ho: Sightseeing

Anonymous: Untitled

Painting of person laying face down with their right palm up in a pile of white, blue, and gray sheets.

Elijah Roberson: Dreaming for me is a dream for others

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

Leopold Serpe: Artificial

Graphic design image of two people with afro hairstyle

Grace Hutcherson: Through The Fro

Photograph of a country road

Anonymous: Country Road

Multicolored mixed media artwork with multiple characters and various accessories

Brittany H: Dramatic Entrance

Jaylen Reed: New Social Order

Close-up Photograph of person with dark hair looking down smiling in orange shirt

Maximus M: Smile

A self portrait if a person with smiley faces around them.

Zitlaly Zuniga Mena: Self Portrait

abstract drawing of lizards in blue ink and blue watercolor

Dashiell Hamalainen: Flow

Photograph of plant looking up at blue sky

Catherine Correa: Flower

photograph of a young person emerging from a black background with red curly hair, wearing a blue hat

Mariana Ortiz: Studio Portrait

Multi-colored mask with feathers and gold accents

Xiao Jun C: Icarus

Set of 3 apartment complexes with a human female torso coming out of the top of the second building. Al in a monochromatic red color scheme

Nico Stafford: bodycomplex

Graphic design with circle and lines varying in color and transparency.

Lilianna Munoz: Layers of hues

Zahane Smith: Rainbow moon

Photo from below of neon sign reading "RAINBOW ROOM" with each letter in different colors; sign is reflected in promotional poster for film screening

Angelica Arriaga: Over the Rainbow

Watercolor painting of 3 rectangles, left most shows partially showing a cup of blue liquid, bottom right shows purple grapes, and top right shows part of a tea bag.

Elijah Roberson: The things I love

Drawing of landscape with trees and mountains.

Samuel Vite: I Want Wind To Blow

Woman looking into a mirror with a purple hair dye bottle and brush and splotches of dye over self

Anonymous: Midnight Salon

Photo of wooden fence with hanging flowers.

Sydney Curran: Sukkah

Yellow background mixed media collage with various people faces and shapes

Simon M: Whatta Mess!

Daja Jackson: Untitled

Anonymous: Reflection

photo of a young woman smiling while wearing a pink scarf and her hands are covering her eyes

frida tejada: life

white tile with black image of skull with adornments

Jonathan M: Aztec sgraffito tile

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

Ava Kopier: Around the Corner

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

Anonymous: a distortion

Aniyah Davies: Untitled

digital artwork of young child and older man behind wheel of boat with american flag in background

Erin Z: New Adventures

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

Joshua Aco: Still Lying Down

Rows of painted red poppy flowers painted on a white background.

Anonymous: September 26, 2014

colorful drawing of a person and rays of patterns and colors coming out for their head

Sophie N. Duncan: Sensory Overload

sculpture of a structure with ladders and platforms made from pages of text

Anonymous: Visions of Zenobia

Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled

Digital painting of 3 figures in a rainy day scene with the text "frog day"

Charice Ghoston: Untitled

Image of a young person with their head down and eyes closed

Alexis Strong: Untitled

Maxine Ivey: Faces

Photograph of two boys on a moving bus looking at the camera

Anthony Hotca: Focal Point

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

Olivia Vue: Quarantine in a Bubble

Painting of an orange bird atop a mountain of blues and purples, and a yellow background.

Adnan Muminhodzic: Power Drawing

Painting of a Young Woman wearing earrings

Tiffany Delgado: Beaded Ears

Mixed media collage of building showing under hole in denim fabric with fence pattern over the top

Taliya M: Urban Echoes

Photograph of a lounge area through the glass of a window, a neon paw above a couch.

Ayden Cao: Comfort Area

Nathalia Pizarro: Sam The Gal

Illustration of a reptile in front of a green and red background

Aman Montgomery: Untitled

Two photos side by side, each has a large black heeled-shoe with polka dot socks made of paper mache displayed on a wood shelf. Left shoe has a banana sitting on the top of the ankle; right shoe has a small figurine on top. On wall behind shoes are images, photos and small drawings.

Daniela Loza: Trophy hunting

A make-up look with blue hair resembling supernatural imagery.

Kevannah Berry: Alien superstar

Grey line work with color shapes and figure.

Keagan Ounsombath: Untitled

Painting of a woman playing a cello

Victoria Phan: Amai

Picture of a black metal heart shaped choker.

Jack Kenney: CHOKER

Wooden board with dancer and flowers around her.

Jane Smith: Center Stage Roses

A drawing in colored pencil of a kid and their grandparent, eyes surrounding them in the background.

Kostandina Goritsan: Generational Eyes

A bunch of pink flowers

Stepheny Jade Greene: Beauty Blooms

Digital artwork collage of buildings a large rubber duck and other overlapping images

Anonymous: Time Collision

Corey Bridges: Falling Into Eternity

photograph of mcdonalds packaging floating in puddle with leaves

Anh H: Polluted Puddle

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

black and white high contrast photo of side of persons face backlit by large ring light

Samuel J: Silhouette

Paper cut out of pink and blue girl

Galia Quezada: Untitled

Hand drawings layered over recycled materials

Emily DeVeyra: a new day

Amari Gholston: Random Fashion Inquiry

close up image of small child in polka dot shirt and bike handle with streamers

Adriana T: Youth

an American flag and a Puerto Rican flag each cut in half and sewn together in the middle

Alejandra Rodriguez: Halfsies / A Medias

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

Witch and green and purple sky.

Margareth Cervantes: Spooky Night

Photo of man on horse spinning a lasso

Isabella Walker: Lasso

Bird eating a nut on dirt with round grey stones in the background

Amri Rodriguez: Survival

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

Jimmy Santiago: Greatness

Different fonts spell out lyrics from Selena's song "Como La Flor" on a purple background with hearts and roses surrounding.

Samarah Booker: Como La Flor

Anonymous: A Man

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

Myreliz Romero: Natural Habitat

White dog sitting on couch in front of curtain and window

Rosalinda Dejesus: Prince

Girl with black background with stars.

Laura Solis: Night Traveler

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 photo of a side of a house with a forest background.

Aaron Bacon: Untitled

Anonymous: Time is Fading

Tylinn Peters: Damage

painting of a young woman seated with a glass fish bowl on her head with goldfish swarming around her

Ana Nieves: Art Block

photograph of an empty playground

Jaymie Ferrer: Childhood

Art piece of American flag with a bird.

Sebastian Sorrondeguy: God Shed His Grace on Thee

Photograph of the orange line "L" train

Delaney Kirk: TrainIMG

Cubist painting of a face in blues, purples and silver with mask and earrings; eyes and mouth rotated.

Khushi Chaudhary: Lapis earrings

An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays

Person laying on a desk

Arlette Sanchez: No Context

Photograph of a car pulling out a driveway

Baljot Singh: Singh. Uncles Car

Pink, green and blue painted paper napkins. Glued and collaged together.

Lizbeth Tafolla: Cannot Merge

Person feeding a small campfire

Javier Martinez: Urban

Julyssa Vazquez: Your Mother’s Liquor Baby

A series of clary sculptures of hands

Katherrin Billordo: Erikson’s Theory

Alayna Avila: Loading Screen

Cats shown inside of the windows of a rocket in space, with planets and stars in the distance.

Amy Diamond: Extra-fur-estrial

A seven-panel vertical comic strip depicting a mother and child bringing laundry to a laundromat

Schantelle Alonzo: Laundry Day Snippet

Black embroidery of two people with swimsuits leaping.

Sasha Spain: one

Prairie Grass

Anonymous: Untitled

Embroidery of 4 computer windows, 3 with landscapes and 1 that reads "Error! Art Not Found."

Jade Bradley: Error!

A black-and-white photo of a light shining amidst an overgrowth of houseplants, next to a window facing an opposite apartment building.

Anonymous: Hidden Growth

Black and white sketch with a figure in the middle

Myranda Cabral: Cludered Mind

Picture of modeled brain with pins in it

Ivan Mendes: Pinned Brain

Anonymous: Untitled

Comic book outline with oranges and people

Aidan Olson: Brother’s Quarrel

Image of two girls smiling beside one another with lots of purple light

Lillianne Fratt: Girls Night Out

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

Samantha Cao: Untitled

Mixed media artwork with multi-colored background and person in middle with felt texture attached in large pink hair eyebrows and sweater.

Anonymous: Doll Hair

Drawing of 2 points of view of the CTA.

Jonathan Montes: Station Lens

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Collage piece of a puzzle heart against a black background.

Zahria Moore: Puzzle Piece

A photograph of a decaying barbie doll covered in black slime

Nalani Sexton: She Let Herself Go

Mixed media painting of character staring off into the distance with a poison coursing through their face

Evelynn Gamez: Poisonous Corruption

Black and white sketch with a figure in the middle

Myranda Cabral: Lost Child

painting of a man playing a guitar while seated

Giovanni Torres: One Last Song

Dark figure with grey background.

Anonymous: Untitled

Painted sequence of 4 creatures, becoming larger and more monstrous from left to right. Gaping teeth, multiple eyes and a gaunt look, with a deep red background.

Veronica Timble: The Slow-Burn Evolution of a Twisted Psyche

painting of a woman wearing a dragon like mask with a paper fan behind her

Judith Bolanos: Untitled

Anonymous: reflecting doll

Painting of George Stinney in a yellow shirt on a red, patterned bandana with folds and creases

Tyshaun Zollicoffer: Portrait Of George Stinney

Abstract red and blue print

Estefania Pena: Worthpoint

Tall figure curing with city.

Katie Kaukialo: Solitude Creates Peace of Mind

Pencil drawing of cartoon duck

Anonymous: Stuffed Duck

Photograph of a railroad track bridge and a sign to the side reading "restricted area"

Ezra Blue: All Clear!

Silhouette of a woman on a bed surrounded by various green papers with text

Anonymous: Overwhelming Reality

Photograph of a house darkened by the night sky with a warm light in the window. The picture is framed by foliage in the foreground.

Genecis Gomez: Untitled

Photo of a person sitting on a basketball.

Anonymous: Manuel

winking snowman drinking hot chocolate

Anna Fedczuk: A Little Too Warm

Amesyah Flowers: Facial

Painting of person with brown hair in blue and white dress with pink and orange shrug over shoulders

Anonymous: Saint Cecilia

Vibrant painting with human figures and fire and city background.

Sarai Mata: Can’t Go Back

Photo of a line of cars in the evening

Lisa Patel: Dynamic Nights

Taylor Lofton: Black on Black

Artwork of young person with pink bow and pink and blue shirt

Ja’Niah L: Journee

Painting of cucumbers cut and sliced in a red bowl

Jaqueline Garcia: Bowl Of Cucumbers

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

Photo of clouds from high angle.

Anonymous: Untitled

Photograph of a man smoking a cigarette

Gael Zamudio: Man Takes Drag

Portrait of person with dark, shoulder length hair wearing glasses

Victoria Mak: “Cheese”

image featuring hands holding a white mask repeating

Celia F: Many Faces

2 people blowing out candle

Alfonso Blas Simon: Happiness in the dark

lino cut of a female with a halo of symbols around head and body wrapped in ribbon and some bones exposed

Jo Olson: Help Yourself

Sculpture. Water bottle on canvas painted over like ocean waves.

Lennie Knapp: Taking In

A painting with various objects meaningful to the artist depicted, including a video game console among others

Nam Nguyen: 2022 – Still Life

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

Kamily Corral: Suga

lady laying on sink

Daniela Acevedo-Canales: Sinking

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

Female wearing a red scrunched up dress standing in a body of water

Charlotte Ochstein: Reef Bleaching Garment

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

Jonah Arnold: Untitled

A colorful piece with a girl in a pink dress looking up at a planet and star filled sky.

Sky Asamoah: Otherworldly

Black knight drawn on lined paper

Anonymous: Untitled

Drawing of a person sitting in a chair with rabbits around them

Grecia Lopez-Macias: Cuentos de Conejos: Rabbit Tales

Moody depiction of trash flooding our waters

Kiana Pan: My Ocean, My Home

Kerry Djan: Cursed Mirror

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

A juxtaposition of different words and imagery relating to the police in black, white, and red.

Askia Bullie: Who do we call?

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