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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A woman crying blood

Aaliyah Borges: Saint’s Wrath

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: ME vs. ME
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
Motorcycle on a hill with stars.

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a bridge entering into a desert area

Anahi Alcala: Ersilia
A sculpture of white hands surrounded by plants.

Avery O’Brien: Reaching Out From the Closet

Jayden Reddins: Alone
Neon smiley face on a black background

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

Alexander Bon Yabes: Untitled
Girl removing make up

Anonymous: Untitled
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

Anonymous: David Hockney Piece

Kate Barbosa: out of this world koala
Various pieces of silver metal on a striped sheet

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 2)
Male in a body of water with eyes and mouth breathing.

Matt Brooks/Ross Vecchione: Just Breathe
Various pieces of silver metal on a striped sheet

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 3)
Digital image of a female with black hair holding a bottle and crying

Emily Liu: Tears Soaked My Paper Face
Upside down city.

Nicholas Laird: Hyde Park Upside Down

Aaliyah Borges: Sun Child

Lian Mawi: A Hoih Mah Diam For Our Body?
Witch and green and purple sky.

Margareth Cervantes: Spooky Night
Landscape of a river an mountains.

Anonymous: Winter Landscape
An open case filled with silver metal jewelry

Angélica Albárran Romo: Metales Prestados Series (Photo 1)

Cindy Ho: Sightseeing
Drawing with multiple items on a plate.

Dannah Agno: Untitled
Black and white: Distorted clock

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Dark figure with grey background.

Anonymous: Untitled
A sculpture of a decaying zombie horse.

Anonymous: Zombie horse
Black and white: Figure sitting in an illuminated room

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Drawing of 2 points of view of the CTA.

Jonathan Montes: Station Lens
Black and white: Side rearview mirror with a distorted image of a street

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Photo of a line of cars in the evening

Lisa Patel: Dynamic Nights
Phone and face with mirror.

NyJah Scurlock: Longing for External Happiness
Collage of various darker schemed images with the words "Open your mind" in the center

Anonymous: when they were together, they were in heaven
Brown pug in a green and blue patched room

Dayana Gallardo: Untitled
Person in the middle with eyeballs all around in gray scale.

Azizah Amin: Behind The Shadow
Animated drawing of a surreal face and elongated tongue

Anonymous: Venom
Faces and grey building.

Anonymous: Xinjiang detention camp, China
Painting of a lake and a small dock with a rainbow in the sky

Anonymous: Untitled
A bunch of pink flowers

Stepheny Jade Greene: Beauty Blooms

Anonymous: Nawaal Artwork
Silhouette of a cat with a body made up of yellow words

Anonymous: Kitty Cat
Drawing of an adaptation of Medusa

Asher Derosia: Medusa Head Shot
Scary movie poster with gory body parts.

Arpit Sutaria: Red Eyes
An image of a sail boat on lake Michigan

Anonymous: Sailing

Tylinn Peters: Damage

Jessica Jung: Blossoming Snow
Prairie Grass

Anonymous: Untitled

Amari Gholston: Random Fashion Inquiry
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

Hailey Sandoval: Brain Nest
Photograph of an alley with a basketball hoop as the central aspect and houses in the background

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

Blanca Cantu: At Ease

Kerry Djan: Cursed Mirror
Face drawn on a patterned background

Tiara Rocio Salgado Padilla
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

Daja Jackson: Untitled
Mayan pyramid with dragon serpent.

David Gutierrez: La Tierra del Quetzalcoatl

Renee Picard: Uncertainty
Sketch drawings of various objects on a black background

Anonymous: I feel like the world is…
Blues with dark faces.

Yareli Vaquera: Lost Souls
Silhouette of a woman on a bed surrounded by various green papers with text

Anonymous: Overwhelming Reality
Girl with scissors at a birthday party.

Kayla Aguilar: Jealous of the Birthday

Taylor Lofton: Black on Black
Digital Art of 3 Clown Balloons

Anonymous: Untitled
Photograph of a country road

Anonymous: Country Road
Photo of a river with trees on a bridge.

Nayely Robledo: Untitled
Blurred out boy sitting on a field in a lens

Irobun Igiehon: Untitled
Drawing of an eye and portion of face

Genesis Coffey: Caution

Gabriela Weffer: Jack and Sally

Anonymous: Untitled
Skull with 3 humans and flowers.

Tam Tran: Invisible Danger
Woman looking into a mirror with a purple hair dye bottle and brush and splotches of dye over self

Anonymous: Midnight Salon

Jaylen Reed: Red Cone Revenge
Drawing of a human figure set in ancient times.

Anonymous: Golden
Bird with pink beak and green eyes.

Anonymous: Serious side-eye
Lake with orange clouds.

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

Lilianna Munoz: Layers of hues
Pine tree

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

Nam Nguyen: 2022 – Still Life
Swirls, with a remote control and 3:00 clock.

Anonymous: Bad Choices Teenagers Make
Black knight drawn on lined paper

Anonymous: Untitled

Alex Chitnis: Am I Going Crazy?

Anonymous: Untitled
Monarch butterfly and text

Anonymous: La Migration

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: bye

Anonymous: Time is Fading
Digital image of a Santa hat surrounded by elves

Fannie Yu: Untitled
Painting of three skulls in a body of water surrounded by pink flowers and green stems

Anonymous: Afternoon Skull

Adele Wallner: Untitled

Anonymous: Sad
Lake and blue sky

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Portrait with broken glass.

Madeline Lensegrav: Shattered

Darion Stanley: Unicorn Horse

Oli Fuentes: Music is Life

Malina Joyce: Summer Swings
Lake picture with black lines on the sky.

Isabella Flores: Untitled
Collage of a bird on tree branches

Anonymous: Untitled
Two people with a pink background.

Nora Duran: Persona

Madison Rozwat: Obscured Sunrise
Drawing of two overlapping hills with a tree on one.

Ezekiel Bizarro: Untitled

Anonymous: A Man
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
Chicago River and 2 boats.

Alek Klee: Untitled

Zahane Smith: Rainbow moon
Portrait with flowers and moon.

Manny Dominguez: Untitled
Green dog on brown couch.

Anonymous: green eyed dog

Alayna Avila: Loading Screen
Blues, greys and pinks, abstract piece.

Anonymous: Despair
Birthday cake with the number six and 3 figures.

Marlyn Carreon: Untitled
Two red circle with black background.

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

Marcela Velazquez: My Hand
Drawing of a sliced watermelon.

Anonymous: Fruta y Bandera
Brick wall with opening.

Aaron Gordon-Vera: Aqueduct

Jada White: Chicago Cleaners
Landscape of orange sky with green mountains and a tree.

Anonymous: Naturally Peaceful
Drawing of buildings with plants and flowers.

Anonymous: Untitled
Dog smiling on a carpet.

Jillian Jung: Timber
Landscape photograph with lake and trees.

Anonymous: Nature

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

Anonymous: The Scream
Loteria card of anti violence.

Rudy Vargas: La Violencia
Trees

Anonymous: Untitled

Jaylen Reed: New Social Order
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