Senior Portfolio – CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

Face in shadow, surrounded by blue flowers

Veronica Kozak: I feel blue

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

River with a plant in it

Anonymous: Focal plant

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

Lisette Medina Mora: Bessie Klaus

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

Arianna Telles: Agony at the Esquire

Many black and white ink drawings of various subjects overlay each other.

Mayrav Bader: Inktober 2022

Alex Chitnis: Am I Going Crazy?

Painting of strawberries with white mold

Fiona Lyons-Carlson: Molding Strawberries

Anonymous: Untitled

Family of three with a blue silhouette of a father with a blue background colored in to mimic a child's drawing

Alexandra Force: Repressed Memories

Crochet vinyl with Black woman on the cover

Naomi Man: OVERLOOKED

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

Mustafa Hasan: HASAN-BAHAI TEMPLE

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

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork

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

Abstracted futuristic cityscape.

Anonymous: Travelposter

Chloe Mitchell: Childhood Home

butterflies

Diana Cervantes: American Dream

Tall figure curing with city.

Katie Kaukialo: Solitude Creates Peace of Mind

Two people with a pink background.

Nora Duran: Persona

Photo of two people with long hair. Photo is blurred, and the images of the two bodies are layered on top each other. Background against a light purple wall.

Esperanza Rivera: Mama and me at 11.57.14 PM

photograph of a young woman looking into a large mirror with a dimly lit lamp and red wall in the background

Sigita Garbonkus: Existentialism

Gabriela Rojas: October Bandaids

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

Aruba Awan: Untitled

Colorful drawing of hands embracing a person's head

Ethan Rodriguez: Loving Hands

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

hand drawn portrait of a grandmother on top of maps of the places she has lived

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Patricia Stevens

Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There

purple man

Erick Gutierrez: Sad & Alone

Picture of a black metal heart shaped choker.

Jack Kenney: CHOKER

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

Anonymous: Overwhelming Reality

book stuff

Gabriela Vargas: Desk

Photo of wooden fence with hanging flowers.

Sydney Curran: Sukkah

Black and white: Figure sitting in an illuminated room

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

A person listening to music through earbuds facing the night sky.

Sarai Salinas: Home

Backpack put into a shopping cart on a field of grass

Seamus Moore: Absurd

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

Emily Chung: Leafy Harmony

photograph of a girl laying in the green grass

Violet Payne: Basking in the Lakes Breeze

Older woman sewing designs on fabric

Saskya Lema Lema: Warmi Awana

Anonymous: Time is Fading

Jada White: Chicago Cleaners

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

Charlotte Ochstein: Reef Bleaching Garment

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

Patricia Malik: Oh Baby Girl

landscapes

Emma Lane: Coconut Worlds

digital painting of an elvish looking character with butterflies landing on her

Rita Ni: Meandering Journey

Person feeding a small campfire

Javier Martinez: Urban

Black ceramic pot with decorations

Ashley Padilla: Untitled

Digital image of a female with black hair holding a bottle and crying

Emily Liu: Tears Soaked My Paper Face

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

Mia Santoyo: West Side Innocence

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

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

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

Photoshopped image of an early computer, two silver figures climbing its side, and a advertisement style headline saying "unlocking potential" a city-scape in the screen,

Rafael Villasenor: What Ensues Tomorrow

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Anonymous: reasons

Dog smiling on a carpet.

Jillian Jung: Timber

Photograph of red dyed water flowing into the drain of a bathtub from a small part of a head of red hair shown.

Rebekka Suciu: True Red

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

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Anywhere, USA

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

Samara Torres Contreras: Octavo

Forest with fire

Lucia Urbaszewski: Burning Forest

photograph of a young person behind a wall of colorful light

Jesus Abelar: Light Show

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

Eric Diaz: project 1

Oli Fuentes: Music is Life

Collage of a window view of a vespa outside, with indoor elements of a helmet on a table.

Elena Gerick: Bedroom View

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

Kevannah Berry: Alien superstar

Photograph of rain drops on a window

Anonymous: Focal Point (1 of 1)

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

Micaela Martinez: Enter

blue ceramic tile piece of a dragon

Jace Eisenberg: Dragon Sgraffito

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

Myreliz Romero: Natural Habitat

Clay doll house with windows and a candle.

Teresa Geschrey: Dollhaus

black and white charcoal drawing of a jellyfish

Olivia Rios-Andre: Wisp of a Jellyfish

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

Grey Watson: Buzz Buzz

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

Kay Kmiec: The Creature in The Shadows

Various pieces of silver metal on a striped sheet

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 2)

Abstract sculpture featuring black spiral pattern, eyeball-shaped spheres with black dots and loops of green material tangled on top

Haneefat Amin: Untitled

Blurred out boy sitting on a field in a lens

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

Nathan Phuthaphan: Needles

Abstract drawing of lines and shapes in bright colors

Jason Acevedo Jr.: Untitled

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

Lynn Tran: The Colors of Emotions

Anonymous: Reflection

painting of a desert landscape with a person on a horse

Utsav Patel: The Encounter

Loteria card of anti violence.

Rudy Vargas: La Violencia

Kerry Djan: Cursed Mirror

Illustration of a goth girl.

Jesse Gomez: Goth+Street

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

Bailey Harris: Breonna Taylor

Jessica Jung: Blossoming Snow

Various images of faces screaming on a blue and purple tinted outdoor background

Anonymous: The Scream

People walking along street past boarded up windows

Charlesa Thompson: Loud cries in the name of injustice

A student sitting atop a gigantic pile of textbooks and notebooks, reading a book that obscures their face

Bailey Harris: School Work

digital painting of a young woman in black and white

Laelani Perez: My Lady Ophelia

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

Mariana Ortiz: Studio Portrait

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

Aksel Juarez Mejia: Out of My mind

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

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

A digital painting of a young child seated with large animated question marks floating above them

Jayla Johnson: A Curious Adolescent

3 story building

Ashley Calderon: Untitled

Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Zumari Velazquez: Flying Across Boarders

A person wearing a white dress with the Chicago skyline in the back.

Yousra Sadiq: Champagne Velvet Dress

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

pastel drawing of a virus and other objects

Moss Ghalambor: The Chaos That We Call Life

Photograph of wave crashing with boats in the background

Breanna Gartley: Untitled

photograph of a young woman smiling in a rainfall

Madeleine Dugas: Emma

Azriel Villanueva: Coffee Break

Woman laying in a body of water wrapped in vines

Illiana Torres: Bluebellvine

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

Dalila Mendez: Embodiment

Black and White drawing. A hand holds a fragmented mirror. Each fragmented shows a different section or perspective of the same face.

Noah Demus: Binocular

Anonymous: Garbage

self portrait painting in multiple colors

Janiyah Jones: Yaya

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

Adela Velic: Feeling Blue

Photo of man on horse spinning a lasso

Isabella Walker: Lasso

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

a photograph of a house at night lit up by christmas lights

Joseph Gomez: The Christmas Before Thanksgiving

a photograph of the top of a building set against a clear blue sky

Claudine Buda: Blue Wall

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

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

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

Black background with white outlines of a family

Sakari Zephier: Family Lines

Comic book outline with oranges and people

Aidan Olson: Brother’s Quarrel

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

Zhouqi Shao: Every Night Pt.2

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

Alyssa Calderon: Snowfall

Photograph closely cropped on a glass with condensation and a leaf

Emaan Khan: I Finished My Drink!!!

person with knife staring birthday cake with lit candles.

Anonymous: Happy 18th Birthday (set 1)

decay cake

Chloë Davidson: Gutz and Glitter

Photograph of Waveland Ave. by Wrigley Field at night.

Maria Arce: Chicago during a global pandemic

Illustration of a person sitting inside of a green bonsai tree

Jeanette Atkins: Bonsai

Photograph of a construction site

Gael Zamudio: Construction

Portrait with broken glass.

Madeline Lensegrav: Shattered

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

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

Jasir Bailey: SkyLine

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

Jiayi Chen: Pelvis and Newborn

Photograph closely cropped on a small purple bird house hanging on a tree

Owen Guenther: Bird House

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

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

Pine tree

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Alexis Ariza: Day Of The Dead

Photograph of a clock

Matthew Hanson: Clock

Valiant samurai on the back of a maip dinosaur

Nived Karthik: Maip Rider

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

Alexis Strong: Untitled

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

Serenity Torres: clueless.

painting of a group of people dancing together

Kelly Burbano: Dancing Through Language

digital painting of a young woman surrounded by eyes and a skeleton

Natalie Ruiz: Anxious Surroundings

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

Anonymous: Primevere Elara

Pastel drawing of a cabin in dense yellow and green grass

Abigail Bucio: I’ve seen this place in a dream

A golden decorated stage painted with acrylic and gouache.

Apolonia Garcia: Bystanders

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

Adnan Muminhodzic: Watercolor

Photograph. A cream colored jellyfish suspended in a black background.

Matthew Dorantes: Jellyfish

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

Anjonae’ Coleman: In the Dark

Dark photograph of a tire swing

Anonymous: Untitled

Landscape photograph with lake and trees.

Anonymous: Nature

man baby

Annie Kate Alberto: Nature’s dance

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

Karen Hernandez: Untitled

Black embroidery of two people with swimsuits leaping.

Sasha Spain: one

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

Isabella Tsanov: I Love Public Restrooms

Two faces on line work and dark background

Rei Lurie: Retro Emotions

Painting of a street in monochrome red

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 1

galaxy eye

Brooke Hayes: It Takes A Village

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

Zhouqi Shao: All Is Ready

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

Jaritzi Villegas: PROVECHO!

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

Lizbeth Tafolla: Cannot Merge

Lake and blue sky

Anonymous: Untitled

Skeleton blowing bubble in an office

Alexis Moreno Torres: Remembrance

Digital art of a character looking at a glowing phone

Jessica Correa: Connected

Foil lit with purple and blue light. A hole in the foil has eyes peering out.

Amirah Ibrahim: Some may say I’m different

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

Aaron Bacon: Untitled

Collage of Moroccan scenery like billboards and buildings in purple and pink hues with the text "Morocco" superimposed across the right side

Esme Huynh: Morocco’s Colors

Large magenta tulips overhanging a small crayon-doodle image of the same flower

Olivia Kluska: Projections

repurposed 3D doll with added sculptural elements

Jeanette Atkins: Madam Pearl

Painting of a faceless superhero looking into a mirror with bruised hands

Joshua Chavez Morris: Inger

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

Nathan Chan: Midstep

Anonymous: Reflections

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

Olivia Andujar: Rings

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

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

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

Anonymous: Fresh and Vibrant

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

Alyssa Argent: They Felt

Painting of cucumbers cut and sliced in a red bowl

Jaqueline Garcia: Bowl Of Cucumbers

Photograph of a car pulling out a driveway

Baljot Singh: Singh. Uncles Car

Jaylen Reed: Red Cone Revenge

Photograph of woman with webbed hands and acrylic nails covering her face.

Anonymous: Hidden

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

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

A photograph of a decaying barbie doll covered in black slime

Nalani Sexton: She Let Herself Go

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

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

Zahane Smith: Rainbow moon

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

Anonymous: coinflip

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

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled

prayer hands

Alexa Carrasco: La Virgen de Guadalupe

An Aseprite Animation

Eliya Torres: Oyasumi

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

Anonymous: when they were together, they were in heaven

Anonymous: Untitled

Wide, symmetrical view of a room in the Chicago Cultural Center, with a photographer in the center on the ground facing up, taking a photo.

Nicolo Valentino: A Green Aura

Katarzyna Lucja Jasiak: Trapped in Rhythm

still life of American flag, hands, and other objects

Jessica Milagros Salinas Rodriguez: El Sueño Americano

Kiana Pan: Man-made Witness

Kamil Calmese: Flower Girl

Person in the middle with eyeballs all around in gray scale.

Azizah Amin: Behind The Shadow

A photo of beekeepers working at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Gianna Christensen: Honey, I’m Home

Painting of a woman playing a cello

Victoria Phan: Amai

Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night

Graphic style drawing in black and white. A woman resting her cheek in her hand, surrounded by repeated text spelling "bored"

Maya Bernal: BORED

Lev Kaplan: Obsidian Oasis

Four rectangles in the four corners of the painting: 1. Top left: A baby as a doctor with the words "La Doctora" on the bottom 2. Top right: A girl drawing on a wall with the words "La Soñadora" on the bottom 3. Bottom left: A woman clutching her throat with the words "La Decepcion" on the bottom 4. Bottom right: A female painting a fish on a wall that extends to the the center of the four depictions with the words "La Paz" on the bottom

Anonymous: Loteria

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

Anonymous: Empty End

Painting of a skyline with mountains, water, and a small city.

Teresa Tikoo: Hardiwar

ink drawing of Mickey and Daffy with castle in the background

Jonathan Montes: Dystopia

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

Susan Zhao: Guardian of Nature

Drawing of a human figure set in ancient times.

Anonymous: Golden

Slow 10 MPH under a bridge

Jonathan Pedraza: Pedrazaslow

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

Nathalia Vazquez: La Inmigración

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

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence

Photo of a river with trees on a bridge.

Nayely Robledo: Untitled

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

Sofia Staudenmaier: Untitled

Moody depiction of trash flooding our waters

Kiana Pan: My Ocean, My Home

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

Cassius Palacio: Rushed Moment or Guassian Blur

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

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

photograph closely cropped of rusty chains

Isabelle Garcia: Weathered Links

White dog sitting on couch in front of curtain and window

Rosalinda Dejesus: Prince

Photograph of a country road

Anonymous: Country Road

Swirls, with a remote control and 3:00 clock.

Anonymous: Bad Choices Teenagers Make

photograph of an empty playground

Jaymie Ferrer: Childhood

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

Amri Rodriguez: Survival

photo of a ceramic bowl

Rohan Pothabathula: Untitled

Blue light with orange background

Nicolo Valentino: Half and Half

painting of a wedding portrait surrounded by a ring of gold

Katherrin Billordo: Reunidos

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

Mia Morales: You is EYE

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

Sun drenched photo of a city street and two people talking

Lucia Urbaszewski: Sunset

Dark center figure with white background

Nicole Rouse: Drowning

Two figures on a red and yellow background

Anonymous: Untitled

Lake picture with black lines on the sky.

Isabella Flores: Untitled

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

Khushi Chaudhary: Lapis earrings

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

Janessa Howell: Keeping your Emotions in

Tyler Vasylenko: Beautiful Chaos

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

Mykérinos: The Organized Playground

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

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

Amy Diamond: Extra-fur-estrial

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

Ava Kopier: Around the Corner

Close-up shot of an eye

Anais Jones: Happy

Digital Art Piece of two young men hugging and embracing

John Paeth: Bury me at Makeout Creek

A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby

digital photo of the inside of a vehicle wires exposed

Kiana Rodriguez: Broken

Drawing of a girl looking up at the stars.

Lauren Brogan: Girl and the Stars

Drawing with multiple items on a plate.

Dannah Agno: Untitled

Motorcycle on a hill with stars.

Anonymous: Untitled

Groups of birds huddled together in a cage, one bird in the center is missing feathers

Molly Fitzgerald: Crowded

Cindy Ho: Sightseeing

Blues with dark faces.

Yareli Vaquera: Lost Souls

Black and green drawing of a young person

Sofia Aguilar: Study of Demsteader

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

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

Center: Drawing of a hand holding a phone with a male and female displayed. Surrounding: Flowers and book quotes

Blanca Cantu: At Ease

Black knight drawn on lined paper

Anonymous: Untitled

lady laying on sink

Daniela Acevedo-Canales: Sinking

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

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Cultural ceramic with a tea light and family photo inside

Aeledth Ramirez Tellez: Para ellos

Black and white: Distorted clock

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled

Water marbled painting of a red rose curling into a slight spiral.

Asma Awass: Rose On Ice

Maya Bernal: Tarot Cards of Fear

Painting with multiple kitchen appliances on a counter against a patterned wall.

Vanessa Villegas: Baudelia’s Kitchen

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

Star night with yellow moon and text

Sarai Roman: First Love/ Late Spring

Portrait of a person with red hair

Robin Lockhart: Self Portrait

Cabinet with representations of different rooms inside

Macy O’Donnell: Rooms

A woman crying blood

Aaliyah Borges: Saint’s Wrath

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

Galia Quezada: 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

Jasmine Cline: Peace of Mind

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

Ty-Carmel Elsa: Hair deco

Drawing of 2 points of view of the CTA.

Jonathan Montes: Station Lens

An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays

rocks

Cindy Chen: Rocks in Stream

Photograph of a girl in front of trees

Anonymous: Thankful

Hand drawings layered over recycled materials

Emily DeVeyra: a new day

Charcoal drawing of person with bun and flowered headband.

Mia Alvarez: Untitled

Adele Wallner: Untitled

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

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

Son Nguyen: Sea of Flowers II

Upside down city.

Nicholas Laird: Hyde Park Upside Down

Digital illustration of a white sports car with the number 44 on it.

John Gutama: Untitled

One side is with horse galloping across a field with dark blue sky and purple clouds. Other half is a drab sky with a helicopter overhead a barren field.

Daniel Barriera: Nature vs. Man-Made

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

Painting of skull with horns on gray cloth to the left of a yellow flower.

Sophia Petrosino: Skulls are Forever

Photograph of an alley with a basketball hoop as the central aspect and houses in the background

Anonymous: Alley Shot

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

Kostandina Goritsan: Generational Eyes

Skateboard with Greek Mythology elements

Janelli Garcia: Helios

Skeleton standing next to a road at sunset

Anonymous: The Road

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

Digital illustration of a skyscraper outlined in white on a black background

Carlos Garcia Jr.: Breathe In and Out

ceramic sculpture of a pond with green lily pads

Jennifer Gonzalez: Beautiful Loneliness

Collage work of a desert and horses with cowboys.

Agata Siwninska: A Trip

Aaliyah Borges: Sun Child

Pixelated portrait of a person

Anina Alpert: Shifted Faces

abstract painting of the interior of a an el car

Adam Wheatley: Untitled

Amir Jamal Brewer-Law: “Acknowledge My Blackness”

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

Kiara Fufunan: rituals

abstract watercolor painting

Melanie Avila: Hope

To killer whales in dark blue water and mountains

Aleena Corral: Leaping Orca

cartoon style drawing of people as flags raising an american flag

Jonathan Matias: Untitled

Disembodied hands hold up a crinkled paper inside a ring of bright white light.

Alex Land: The Mirrored Map

Black and white drawing of a face with dark hair and eyes. A color version of the face is reflected on the bottom half of the drawing.

Ashley Barrios: Mask

Drawing of an eye and portion of face

Genesis Coffey: Caution

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

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug

coin necklace

Angélica Albárran Romo: Ripening

Anonymous: Sad

Yellow ceramic vessel with white rope

Tlaloc Rodriguez: Untitled

Drawing of Mayor Lori lightfoot with flames in the background

Emilia Mleczek: Lori Lightfoot

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

frida tejada: life

Images of sheep layered underneath chicken wire fencing

Yessenia Martinez: El Chupacabra

Chicago River and 2 boats.

Alek Klee: Untitled

a photograph of a young woman holding up a Puerto Rican Flag

Jazlyn Martell: Boricua

Many wide-legged blue pants on a hanger, running on a yellow background.

Sara Lin: Pants!

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

Drawing of a sliced watermelon.

Anonymous: Fruta y Bandera

A digital depiction of a church with some elements being "incomplete" by being rendered in white.

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled

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

Juan Popoca: Untitled

Two figures, one red and one blue, with deep shadows paused in action while facing the viewer.

Zoë Gordon: The Elements of Purple

Anonymous: ME vs. ME

Geometric piece of art with a variety of colors.

Yesniea Garcia: Depth

colored pencil drawing of two elephants at a poker table playing cards. There are curtains in the background and a sign that reads "the old men hold all the cards"

Charlotte Ochstein: The old men hold all the cards

Tylinn Peters: Damage

Girl removing make up

Anonymous: Untitled

digital photo of a young woman seated wearing a fancy dress looking at her shoe

Nicole Alcalde Hester: Leah

Colorful illustration of two characters fighting

Christopher Rodriguez: Untitled

digital painting of humans in a colorful abstract landscape

Surya Newa: To each their own

Anonymous: Untitled

Neon smiley face on a black background

Anonymous: Mellow

car animation

David Wilson: Splash of Color

Painting of green and purple leaves.

Mahdi Yousef Muhamad: Green Blossom

landscape of huts from a place in Pakistan framed with a blue and orange decorative border

Kashmala Khalid: A Glimpse of Sindh

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

Tyshaun Zollicoffer: Portrait Of George Stinney

Audrey Hancock: Am I ‘other?’

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

Abby Balmaseda: Untitled

Faces and grey building.

Anonymous: Xinjiang detention camp, China

Wooden board with dancer and flowers around her.

Jane Smith: Center Stage Roses

Blues, greys and pinks, abstract piece.

Anonymous: Despair

self portrait of a young woman in charcoal

Esmeralda Avila-Marquez: Untitled

Bird with pink beak and green eyes.

Anonymous: Serious side-eye

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

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan

Painting of a giant snake coiled around a wood branch. The head is not visible, the top of it's body is green, the middle different shades of brown and the bottom grey. The tail is just the skeleton.

Elizabeth Curry: Dissection

Anonymous: Elephant

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

Sakari Zephier: Soul Ties

Hailey Sandoval: Brain Nest

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

Aman Montgomery: Untitled

Four trains cross over and under each each-other, glowing with neon light. Three of the trains seem to float midair.

Roderick Elston: Green Line 2077

Several dice

Matthew Minczuk: Dice Depth of Field

Picture of modeled brain with pins in it

Ivan Mendes: Pinned Brain

Pencil drawing of a small-mouth bass

Anonymous: Small Mouth Bass

Digital painting of a humanoid figure in a dystopian landscape

Surya Newa: Big Brother

painting of snack foods opened up and laying on a table

Jasmin Melissa Rojas: Corruption

A photo taken from a dark environment indoors, showing the silhouettes of a line of people against a window that gives a view to trees outside.

Eliana Frost: Birds on a Wire

Jayden Reddins: Alone

Eyeball with mushroom, butterfly and mouth piece.

Lyric Roy: Untitled

Kacy Hendricks: The sunken Place

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

Ayden Cao: Comfort Area

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

Alejandra Rodriguez: Halfsies / A Medias

Turtle in blue water

Lia Rodriguez: How Can Tragedy Be Beautiful?

Collage of a bird on tree branches

Anonymous: Untitled

Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding

Person on their phone on the toilet with a scale, hair tie, towel, and hairbrush on the floor

Karina Vargas: Bathroom Break

Perspective of a Chicago street at night

Sofia Bush: Old Town Silence

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

Genecis Gomez: Untitled

CTA

Andre Mendoza: Pigeon Vogue

This is a sculpture of a tree with cicada shells.

Sofia Comas: Shells of the Self

Yellow, green and red bandana with the word "AFLOAT" repeated

Paolo Trovato: Untitled

Photo of a line of cars in the evening

Lisa Patel: Dynamic Nights

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

Isabella Reyes: delically

black and white photograph of a young man wearing a black sweater

Jordan Vaccaro: Fading

Anonymous: World

Anonymous: Untitled

Found poem with drawings and color to highlight prose

Romeo Pena: Untitled

A young hand reaching towards a blank white drink amongst detailed black and white renderings of different drinks.

Edwin Santana: Untitled

Disembodied eyes populate a red background with a spotlight focused on a small human figure

Karen Ramos: The Perspective.

Photo of a person leaning against a patterned wall.

Taylor Lofton: Endless Vision

Juritcy Alvarado: Purple Mountains

oil painting of a young woman with brown hair

Audrey Burke: Self Portrait

two dragons facing each other in an arched window, resembling stained glass. The combination of the green and purple dragons beside each other, in front of a sky filled with blue lanterns, creates a sense of peaceful unity and balance.

Trissa Tsang: Mystical Flame

Photo of a rhino at zoo

Flavio Martin Hermosillo: Dyin Breed

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

Huda Darbo: The Complexity of Nature.

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

DJ Murray: What Nourishes Me Destroys Me

Larry Tate: Lens

Abstract painting of a young woman's face

Mia Neiman: My Happy Girl

Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá

Person with a yellow shirt and blue jeans in front of the planet Earth with a feather sticking out of its head.

Zania Watson: Take Me Back Home

White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled

Portrait of a face with a gold halo around head.

Jomaris Rivera: Untitled

Painting of woman wearing all white lying on red couch. She eats raw meat off of a skewer.

Melanie Reyes: Raw Craving

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

Anonymous: September 26, 2014

Graphic design image of two people with afro hairstyle

Grace Hutcherson: Through The Fro

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

green ink print of chains

Joseph Morco: Flow Through the Chain

Maxine Ivey: Faces

woman in front of mirror

Auttum Thomas: Stalker

Anonymous: Lavender Willow

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

Yanely Castellanos: A Battle You Can’t See

charcoal drawing of a young woman with one foot on a stool and her hands behind her head

Daniel Garcia: Balanced Act

Anonymous: Sk8ter girl

Jacquelin Borreguero: The moon

2 people blowing out candle

Alfonso Blas Simon: Happiness in the dark

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

Sky Asamoah: Otherworldly

Small child with dark eyes and hair looking at the camera with figures behind

Yaretzi Cornelio: Angles

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Hair

A digital illustration of a person with audio editing imagery within their head against an abstract pink background.

YosiYah YisraEL: Music in my mind

Drawing of letters randomly placed around page in various colors

India Deadwiler: Just Imagine

Collage of sketches, texts, and other various materials

Heaven Carter: Mental Destruction

Acrylic painting of coral reef and an anchor

Jonathan Julian Castaneda Soto: Untitled

Digital blue and pink skin on male and female.

Alexander Bon Yabes: Untitled

Image of mother typing on a laptop with a child in her lap

Jazlyn Ojeda: Work Load

Digital drawing of a person with a yellow jacket and a helmet with imagery inside it.

Cameron Chinn: Killie Billy

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

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

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

Lennie Knapp: Taking In

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

Samantha Cao: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

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

A series of clary sculptures of hands

Katherrin Billordo: Erikson’s Theory

Yellow Champion hoodie with a floral arm

Juan Gasca: YELLOW CHAMPION HOODIE

Painting of three people standing side to side in dresses.

Katia Gomez: Unidad

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

Emily Cuevas: Remember to Slay

Vibrant painting with human figures and fire and city background.

Sarai Mata: Can’t Go Back

clay sculpture of a slug with a human face

Anonymous: Sluggish

Painting of an ocean with swords in it in front of a pink sunset

Jessica Barrera Castro: Six of Swords/El Amanecer

Self portrait with hand over face, a lightbulb above head, and text framing the drawing

Ibrahim Rsuh: Self Portrait (Copy of IB#2)

Genevieve Carlozo: Wounds in Healing

A person looking at a snow glob on a table. A snowman and tree is in the snow globe.

Samantha Franco: Snow globe memory

Abstract painting in white, black and red

Elmer Santos: The Plague

Painting of a Young Woman wearing earrings

Tiffany Delgado: Beaded Ears

Two people through the streets of Mexico

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled

Daja Jackson: Untitled

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 drawing of forest with many bare trees.

Samuel Vite: Headless Horseman

Black and white photograph of a man crossing the street. He walks under train tracks with cars waiting to cross the road next to him.

Lisa Patel: City Seeker

Crayon and pencil abstraction of browns and black, expressive and fast moving lines.

Derrick Marcus, II: Untitled

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

Azriel Mesa: Susanna and the Elders Figure Study

Digital art piece of surreal and colorful planets

Joshua Rivers: Untitled

painting of a skull with a dagger through ti

Judith Bolanos: Untitled

Manga style drawing with a three-part sequence. Above a figure prepares a breath weapon, then a blast shoots out a large distance, and below smoke from the blast starts to clear.

Malachi Lynch: Halo Phoenix flare

A collage incorporating journal writing and photos juxtaposed against it.

Harrison Brennan: Luca all Over

Anonymous: David Hockney Piece

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

Tatiana Espinoza: Self Repair

Amari Gholston: Random Fashion Inquiry

Person sitting in a cozy room writing at a desk

Lillianne Fratt: Untitled

Oranges of a portrait with glasses.

Amani Mohammad: Untitled

Darion Stanley: Unicorn Horse

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

Feline humanoid gazing into the distance at sunset.

Alessandra Montero: Sunset

hand sewn denim jeans

Juan Gasca: Jeans

Malina Joyce: Summer Swings

Drawing of two dragons in front of clouds

Colin Moy: Sky n Sea/ on Air on Water

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

Alenis Cuzco: Prisoner

Digital image of a water drop surrounded by greenery

Anonymous: Undisturbed

Painting of a face with butterflies layered over it

Evelynn Gamez: Rebirth

Painting of a nude Black person with braided hair framed by leaves, colorful eyes, a large beetle and abstract shapes.

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Regenesis

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

Trees

Anonymous: Untitled

Colorful drawing of a girl with blue hair

Kenia Cardenas: Untitled

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

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood

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

Zitlaly Zuniga Mena: Self Portrait

Nicolas Cabrera: Skullution Animation

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

Adela Lisca: Pineapple

photo of a prism with a purple light

Kate Barbosa: spotlight

Person laying on a desk

Arlette Sanchez: No Context

Nicki Ta: Goodwill

Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas

A bunch of pink flowers

Stepheny Jade Greene: Beauty Blooms

dragon

Angel Boratynska: Ice Dragon

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

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

Emily Tragarz-Witek: EMBED

Girl with black background with stars.

Laura Solis: Night Traveler

Jillian Berry-Clyde: Hidden Truth

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

Jocelyne Estrada: Adulthood-2

Painted portrait of a person on a purple background

Genevieve Desch: Untitled

Photograph of plant looking up at blue sky

Catherine Correa: Flower

Three frogs depicted on trees and branches on the bottom and righthand side of the painting with pill bottles, pills and a clock floating in the black background space.

Anonymous: Sana Sana Colita de Rana

Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled

drawing of polar bear with plastic covering face

Kibito Ariyoshi: Suffocated

Morgan Curry: Drowning

photo of the interior of a mall

Mutahhar Asad: Mall Motion

Black and white photograph of the Chicago Theater Marquee

Alex Land: Home

drawing of a kitchen

Natalie Mora: La Cosina de los Moras; The Mora Kitchen (ENGLISH translation)

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

Digital image of a Santa hat surrounded by elves

Fannie Yu: Untitled

Photo of residential homes with a Ukrainian flag

Sofia Martyniuk: Slava Ukraine

Red cardinal set on a stark black background

Garry Kuhlmann: Anger Incarnate

blue and white painting of an abstract face with a hand with long nails

Clair DeYoung: Phlash Fotografy

Drawing with color pencil with several items in a room

Kellyn Chavez: Untitled

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

Anonymous: Third Eye Collective

Triptych portraits of two people and a teddybear.

Angelina Cofer: In the matter of Erica Deeman

Drawing of a person with blue hair in front of a Butterfly

Ethan Rodriguez: Divine Feminine

self portrait photograph of a student seated amongst the trees in a grassy spot

Wasim Choudhury: Colors of Nature

Silhouette of a cat with a body made up of yellow words

Anonymous: Kitty Cat

Drawing using blue pencil. In the upper right hand corner, a male figure kisses the cheek of a female figure. Laid over those figures, a shirtless male figure holds a female figure in a bikini whose head is tilted back.

Mariana Medina: Despair

Ceramic robot character standing on one foot

Michael Montgomery: Robot

Renee Picard: Uncertainty

Photograph of a person waving into a puddle reflection

Liv Greenfield: Reaching Out

Anonymous: color

An open case filled with silver metal jewelry

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 1)

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!

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