Student Art in the Library: Acrylic on Canvas

Karly Grace Dijker Sierka
Class of 2025 
Wonderlust, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches

The stark result of a vast, wide open vaht of curiosity–holding much of our fear and judgments being called onto the work and lives, we’ve created (in the form of modernization and abusing access to resource). At least the ones that have significantly impacted and caused repercussions on natural life.
Acrylic paint on canvas

* Note* WATER IS LIFE! By facing the simultaneous beauty and sorrow within, can we all reunite through grief. Inspired by a film in Deike Peter’s class on Water Scarcity, as a threat to humanity and all life as we know it. I aimed to capture the effervescent state of denial and complexity that lives within our society on the issue of water insecurity. While drawing on the everlasting beauty of Mother Nature in this state of uncertainty.

Koki Nagamura
Class of 2023
The World is Most Beautiful When You're Alone, May 2022 
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches

This is a city of Tokyo in the rain. 

Parik Chalise
Class of 2022
The Lion, October 2018
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches

My first ever hard-edge painting on canvas! For all the brave lions at Soka

Akemi Akaiwa
Class of 2019
Strawberry, February 2019
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

Parik Chalise
Class of 2022
Top of the World (Sagarmatha), October 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

For the place, where kindness and compassion exceed the height of the Everest. For my country, where I am immensely glad to have been born.

Abigail Meyer
Class of 2021
female01, April 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

This piece was my first time trying an impressionist-influenced style. I hoped to convey a message of femininity and to also fade in and out of detail based on the depth of the flowers within the painting.

(Returned to the artist)

DJ
Class of 2020
Gallinas River, November 2017
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

A portion of the river from the perspective of the Montezuma Hot Springs during winter.

Kylee Kemlage
Class of 2018
Untitled, April 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

Shrihari Saravanan
Class of 2021
Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches

The painting depicts the breathtaking cathedral rocks at Yosemite Valley inspired by Albert Bierstadt's painting.

Mariella Garcia 
Class of 2019
La Monstera Deliciosa, 2017
30 x 24 inches

This painting is an homage to my home, full of plants, life, and color.

Dayoon Kim
Class of 2019
Forest Near Sunset, October 2016
24 x 30 inches

This piece is a painting based on a photograph taken from National Geographic Magazine. It was one of the projects that we did in Creative Painting class taught by Professor Arie Galles.

Emma Grant-Dreher
Class of 2019
Untitled, December 2015
24 x 30 inches

A study on contrasting shapes and colors that would look uncomfortable or unconventional next to each other.

Emma Grant-Dreher
Class of 2019
Untitled, December 2015
30 x 24 inches

A painting of two women made to look like reflections of each other.

Bhamini Jain
Class of 2017
Je t'aime Vansha, November 2013
24 x 30 inches

This painting was created as a birthday gift to the artist's sister Vansha. The painting has an abstract view of Vansha's face with an abstract range of colors. It signifies her colorful and quirky nature—both how the artist perceives it and how the individual is. We are all quirky and colorful in our own individual ways and that furthermore reflects our perspectives. The thing is to recognize the colors and the vibrance and embrace them.

Taylor Karnilaw
Class of 2017
playful in color, November 2013
30 x 24 inches 

All throughout my life I have lived with a menagerie of animals, which I really love. This piece is my expression of the bright, playful dispositions of puppies with color. 

(Returned to the artist)

Natsuko Umezaki
Class of 2017
Sakura Blossom, November 2013
24 x 30 inches

Sakura (cherry blossoms) are one of my favorite flowers because the light pink/white petals that only bloom a few weeks a year are so beautiful. Happiness wells up in my heart just seeing pictures of them. I hope people who view this painting will feel the same way.

Natsuko Umezaki
Class of 2017
Mother and Daughter, December 2013
30 x 24 inches 

I would love to present this artwork to my mother who, to me, is like a sunflower in my life. She is always bright and encouraging, so in return I want to be like a sunflower for my mother.

Kiyoko Nakano
Class of 2014
Clark Little's rainbow sunset wave, April 2014
24 x 30 inches 

Originally a photograph by one of my favorite photographers, Clark Little. He is known for his photographs of shore break waves shot from the inside, looking out into the horizon. I chose this specific photograph of his because I truly loved the colors of the sky being reflected into the waves and creating the rainbow water.  

Kiyoko Nakano
Class of 2014
Whale Shark Silhouette, May 2014
30 x 24 inches 

As an ocean lover, I have adopted scuba diving as one of my favorite sports and learning opportunities. I have great passion for marine conservation as well as marine animals and especially enjoy swimming with sharks and manta rays. Whale sharks are my dream sharks to swim with, for their beauty and tranquility. I have yet to experience swimming with these sharks so I decided to paint the silhouette rather than the spots and stripes, which I would like to first observe with my own eyes.

Melodie Koike
Class of 2014
Tampopo, April 2014
24 x 30 inches 

Based on the tampopo (dandelion) photo found on: http://detrobles.tumblr.com/#me

(Returned to the artist)

Lirica Nishimoto
Class of 2014
Connections, May 2014
30 x 24 inches

(Returned to the artist)