CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2023 Senior Portfolio Honorable Mention

The works in this gallery were all created by Chicago Public Schools students. They celebrate art, design, growth, and learning. Join us in exploring the work of some of Chicago’s best young artists and designers!

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Prairie Grass

Anonymous: Untitled
Various pieces of silver metal on a striped sheet

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 2)
Collage of various darker schemed images with the words "Open your mind" in the center

Anonymous: when they were together, they were in heaven

Taylor Lofton: Black on Black

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a sliced watermelon.

Anonymous: Fruta y Bandera
Pine tree

Anonymous: Untitled
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

Jaylen Reed: New Social Order
Phone and face with mirror.

NyJah Scurlock: Longing for External Happiness
Lake with orange clouds.

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: David Hockney Piece
Digital image of a female with black hair holding a bottle and crying

Emily Liu: Tears Soaked My Paper Face
Portrait with flowers and moon.

Manny Dominguez: Untitled
Birthday cake with the number six and 3 figures.

Marlyn Carreon: Untitled
Sketch drawings of various objects on a black background

Anonymous: I feel like the world is…
Mayan pyramid with dragon serpent.

David Gutierrez: La Tierra del Quetzalcoatl

Anonymous: Nawaal Artwork

Renee Picard: Uncertainty
Bird with pink beak and green eyes.

Anonymous: Serious side-eye
Collage of a bird on tree branches

Anonymous: Untitled

Jayden Reddins: Alone
Dark figure with grey background.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: bye
Landscape of orange sky with green mountains and a tree.

Anonymous: Naturally Peaceful
Loteria card of anti violence.

Rudy Vargas: La Violencia

Anonymous: Untitled
Faces and grey building.

Anonymous: Xinjiang detention camp, China

Anonymous: Untitled
Blurred out boy sitting on a field in a lens

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
A woman crying blood

Aaliyah Borges: Saint’s Wrath
Center: Drawing of a hand holding a phone with a male and female displayed. Surrounding: Flowers and book quotes

Blanca Cantu: At Ease
Swirls, with a remote control and 3:00 clock.

Anonymous: Bad Choices Teenagers Make
A painting with various objects meaningful to the artist depicted, including a video game console among others

Nam Nguyen: 2022 – Still Life

Alex Chitnis: Am I Going Crazy?

Kate Barbosa: out of this world koala
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

Jada White: Chicago Cleaners

Jessica Jung: Blossoming Snow

Malina Joyce: Summer Swings

Adele Wallner: Untitled

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

Anonymous: Midnight Salon
Green dog on brown couch.

Anonymous: green eyed dog
Black knight drawn on lined paper

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a child saying "Uh Oh!!!" in an outdoor setting with other people and a soccer ball knocking over a vase

Anonymous: Inktober Day 31

Anonymous: color
Digital blue and pink skin on male and female.

Alexander Bon Yabes: Untitled
Witch and green and purple sky.

Margareth Cervantes: Spooky Night

Anonymous: A Man
Silhouette of a cat with a body made up of yellow words

Anonymous: Kitty Cat
Digital image of a Santa hat surrounded by elves

Fannie Yu: Untitled
Two people with a pink background.

Nora Duran: Persona
Person in the middle with eyeballs all around in gray scale.

Azizah Amin: Behind The Shadow

Anonymous: ME vs. ME
An open case filled with silver metal jewelry

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 1)
Landscape of a river an mountains.

Anonymous: Winter Landscape
An image of a sail boat on lake Michigan

Anonymous: Sailing
Painting of three skulls in a body of water surrounded by pink flowers and green stems

Anonymous: Afternoon Skull
Male in a body of water with eyes and mouth breathing.

Matt Brooks/Ross Vecchione: Just Breathe

Jaylen Reed: Red Cone Revenge
Black and white: Figure sitting in an illuminated room

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Photo of a river with trees on a bridge.

Nayely Robledo: Untitled
Chicago River and 2 boats.

Alek Klee: Untitled
Skull with 3 humans and flowers.

Tam Tran: Invisible Danger
Black and white: Side rearview mirror with a distorted image of a street

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Scary movie poster with gory body parts.

Arpit Sutaria: Red Eyes
Blues, greys and pinks, abstract piece.

Anonymous: Despair
Painting of a lake and a small dock with a rainbow in the sky

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of 2 points of view of the CTA.

Jonathan Montes: Station Lens
Drawing of two overlapping hills with a tree on one.

Ezekiel Bizarro: Untitled
A bunch of pink flowers

Stepheny Jade Greene: Beauty Blooms
Photograph of a country road

Anonymous: Country Road

Kerry Djan: Cursed Mirror
Photograph of an alley with a basketball hoop as the central aspect and houses in the background

Anonymous: Alley Shot
Face drawn on a patterned background

Tiara Rocio Salgado Padilla
Upside down city.

Nicholas Laird: Hyde Park Upside Down
Drawing of buildings with plants and flowers.

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

Anonymous: The Scream
Brown pug in a green and blue patched room

Dayana Gallardo: Untitled
Monarch butterfly and text

Anonymous: La Migration
Black and white: Distorted clock

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Blues with dark faces.

Yareli Vaquera: Lost Souls

Anonymous: Lavender Willow
Girl removing make up

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Lake and blue sky

Anonymous: Untitled
A sculpture of white hands surrounded by plants.

Avery O’Brien: Reaching Out From the Closet

Tylinn Peters: Damage
Drawing of an eye and portion of face

Genesis Coffey: Caution
Drawing of an adaptation of Medusa

Asher Derosia: Medusa Head Shot
Brick wall with opening.

Aaron Gordon-Vera: Aqueduct

Hailey Sandoval: Brain Nest
Drawing with multiple items on a plate.

Dannah Agno: Untitled
Neon smiley face on a black background

Anonymous: Mellow
Graphic design with circle and lines varying in color and transparency.

Lilianna Munoz: Layers of hues
Silhouette of a woman on a bed surrounded by various green papers with text

Anonymous: Overwhelming Reality
Portrait with broken glass.

Madeline Lensegrav: Shattered

Anonymous: Untitled

Alayna Avila: Loading Screen
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
Motorcycle on a hill with stars.

Anonymous: Untitled
Various pieces of silver metal on a striped sheet

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 3)
Two red circle with black background.

Anonymous: Untitled

Cindy Ho: Sightseeing
Lake picture with black lines on the sky.

Isabella Flores: Untitled

Lian Mawi: A Hoih Mah Diam For Our Body?
A sculpture of a decaying zombie horse.

Anonymous: Zombie horse
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
Drawing of a bridge entering into a desert area

Anahi Alcala: Ersilia
Landscape photograph with lake and trees.

Anonymous: Nature
Animated drawing of a surreal face and elongated tongue

Anonymous: Venom
An Image of an illustrated hand with a purple and orange background.

Marcela Velazquez: My Hand

Madison Rozwat: Obscured Sunrise

Zahane Smith: Rainbow moon

Anonymous: Time is Fading

Gabriela Weffer: Jack and Sally
Girl with scissors at a birthday party.

Kayla Aguilar: Jealous of the Birthday
Dog smiling on a carpet.

Jillian Jung: Timber

Amari Gholston: Random Fashion Inquiry
Trees

Anonymous: Untitled

Oli Fuentes: Music is Life

Daja Jackson: Untitled

Aaliyah Borges: Sun Child
Drawing of a human figure set in ancient times.

Anonymous: Golden

Darion Stanley: Unicorn Horse
Photo of a line of cars in the evening

Lisa Patel: Dynamic Nights
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