Exhibition Date: December, 2025
Class 130
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Hold On to the Path
- Tai Su
As a rock climber, I've learned how to overcome difficulties by not giving up and continuing to try to pass the obstacles. This was the inspiration for my Art Exhibition project.
White dashed lines are a metaphor for my life path, and the hand holds indicate both obstacles and supports that help you move forward. Because difficulty makes us stronger.
I decided to make it as an installation piece. I want people to have more engagement when they experience this work.
In the end, this installation is a reminder that progress comes from holding on, even when the path is uncertain. If viewers feel that message, then the work is complete for me.
Materials: Mixed Media
Mad Punk
- Mark Hill
I aimed to create an artwork that reflects growth and challenges societal norms around sewing, a craft often undervalued and gendered. Sewing is labor-intensive and historically dismissed, but for me and others, clothing is a powerful form of expression and protection. It serves social and psychological purposes—boosting confidence and communicating how we want people to see us.
For this project, I made a pair of black patch pants and a lab coat, choosing materials that speak to me. I incorporated scraps from old clothes and used acrylic paint to add symbols and marks. I sewed on pockets and bands to increase storage, making the garments functional as well as personal. The extra fabric also provides warmth, emphasizing practicality. Through this process, I challenge stereotypes and highlight the emotional significance of sewing and clothing, transforming a simple craft into a statement of identity and resilience.
Materials: Fabric, Thread, Sewing Notions, Acrylic Paint
Auction
- Yuri Kakuya
In Auction I focused on the fact that capitalism inevitably exists within capitalism itself.
The act of re-examining money — a concept so ordinary and familiar that we rarely question its existence.
I aimed to create a work that is not just to be viewed, but one that invites interaction between the artwork and the audience. You can place money into the jar that is being auctioned inside the painting. As you do, the value of the artwork depicting the auction increases in an interactive, reciprocal way.
An auction is an act of driving up value. You can forcibly raise the value of this painting as well. But are you truly a resident of reality, or merely a part of this artwork?
Materials: Painting, Jar, Audience Participation
Eternal Bloom
- Jennie Kang
"Eternal Bloom" reflects a life that persists where life should no longer exist. I was drawn to this idea while watching my grandfather struggle in long-term illness, and feeling a quiet, impossible wish for him to stay a little longer.
A pale form rises from a world that has stopped breathing, yet within its stillness, something fragile continues to grow. Covered, protected, and restrained, it survives not because it is alive, but because it cannot die.
Here, beauty is both a memory and an illusion - a reminder of our desire to keep what was never meant to last forever.
Materials: Plaster, Wire Mesh, Plastic, Clay
100 Face
- Sean Yin
I am a mesmerizing spectacle of intricate organization, a sprawling grid that stretches out before you. From this vantage point, I appear as countless identical squares, each a tiny window onto a larger, colorful pattern that pulses beneath my surface. The sunlight catches my texture, creating a dazzling effect, almost like a massive, shimmering tapestry woven from light and shadow.
I make the eye inward, my center seeming to radiate an energy that pulls the surrounding squares into a dizzying rush. It’s an optical illusion that speaks to structure and scale, making me feel both infinite and meticulously contained at the same time. I am a testament to order, a complex visual rhythm begging to be explored, yet I remain an enigma of repetitive design.
Materials: One hundred photographs
Perpetuating the Cycle
- -Mason Crawford
I had what could best be described as an unstable childhood. As a "special needs" child, I went through a system filled with people who didn't know how to handle me, and it just ended up making things worse on both ends. So as soon as I saw an out from that system, I took the opportunity to completely reinvent myself, shedding any trace of what I believed were my "diseased" traits.
And then I did it again. And again.
I wanted a tactile, three-dimensional way to represent things, letting the viewer attain maximum immersion. The frames on the side only allow a small view into "my mind".
The constant movement of my likeness aims to make the viewer question how they too reinvent themselves, and whether they truly believe they fit where they are now.
Materials: Melamine, Wood, Cardboard, Glass, Metal
My Mental Nest
- Adrian Koesjadhi
Having lived in Canada for over almost 10 years, I sometimes lose the sense of home - Indonesia - from which I only remember specific images. To remember and recapture what I’ve lost, I created a sculptural piece using elements from a cultural story related to the origins of my hometown.
I was inspired by the works of Otani as his works often evoke the feeling of wonder and childlike imagination.
I choose sculpture as my artform as this was new to me and I wanted to challenge myself. I have faced a lot of challenges from forming the paper mache to stabilizing the sculptures. As an act of preserving the cultural background, I decided to put a glass shell on top of my piece.
Materials: Aluminum Foil and Paper Mache
Growing Within
- Eunice Fan
Growing Within explores the inner landscape of emotion—those feelings we express openly and those we quietly hide. Because everyone reveals their emotions in different ways, I chose to use masks as metaphors, each one capturing a layer of what we keep inside. For me, shapes and textures communicate these feelings more naturally than words.
What inspires me most about this theme is its sense of mystery. A mask may appear silent, yet it still speaks; it carries an unspoken emotion that invites the viewer to pause, look, and reflect.
Drawing inspiration from contemporary Chinese artists, I selected a gentle color palette, floral elements, and minimalistic designs to bring each mask to life. I hope the audience notices the subtle wrinkles created by the tissue paper and the symbolic meanings embedded in every detail.
Materials: issue paper, white glue mixed with water, and white paper
Emotional Apothecary
- Cece Soung
"Emotional apothecary” was inspired by the way my family handle the cultural values of each generation after generation. We were taught how to handle our emotions, and the act of being emotional in public. Emotions were seen as something that we should hide and never to be seen by anyone. My grandmother is a major influence of my life, and she always will be, but her way of bottling up emotions. It affected me differently than it does her. Each jar is a representation of what emotions I bottled up through my life.
In this multisensory work, I'd like to encourage the viewers to smell each jar. The 3d aspect helped better visualize each of my emotional states then 2D.
Materials: Foam board , Paint, Fruits, Herbs, Cardboard, Hot glue
Grace
- Koki Hasegawa
As a child, I believed I could become anything. But as an adult, gaining perspective on the world around me, I came to recognize people and barriers I simply couldn't overcome, no matter how hard I tried.
Feeling small and in despair over what I possess, yet simultaneously learning to find joy in rediscovering what I already have, became my inspiration.
Drawing on my gratitude for my ancestors, I decided to create a three-dimensional sculpture using the form of DNA to symbolize what I carry today from some distant moment.
This work attempts to encapsulate these emotions, always occurring simultaneously in multiple layers—within a single piece.
Materials: Mixed media
Pinhole Photography
- Ayden Rhee
Photography is my way of capturing how the world revolves around a subject, evoking the nostalgia of childhood photobooks. For this exhibition, I stepped away from digital convenience to embrace pinhole photography. The immense time and effort required to create each photo enriches the final image with a raw, tactile quality. This process of waiting stimulates the imagination and builds anticipation for the unseen result. Reflecting on this project, my perspective has shifted from being result-based to process-based. This change has taught me to be more deliberate—pausing to consider the perfect composition before clicking the shutter.
Materials: Photography through Pinhole Camera
