HWC DAA Spring 2024 Student Exhibition

April 17 - May 3, 2024
Closing Reception: Wednesday, May 1, 3:30-5:00pm

Juror: Linda Emmerman
Curator: Jelena Berenc
Exhibition poster with artwork of three standing green flowers with faces and texts that reads "HWC Department of Art & Architecture Spring 2024 Student Exhibition, April 17 - May 3, Closing Reception: Wednesday, May 1, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, copyright Atziry Castaneda, It's An Early Spring, Print, 2024. Harold Washington College, Room 102, 30 E. Lake St., Chicago, IL 60601." There are also two QR codes at the bottom that lead to the exhibition website and the gallery's instagram
Exhibition Pieces
Portrait of a black woman whose curly black hair fills the entire background. Six different hands reach through the hair to touch it.

Alexandra Henderson, No, You Can't, Painting, 2024

Black and white print over a beige paper of a neighborhood alley with power lines, garages, trees, and a parked car

Ari Dorshkind, My Chicago Skyline, Printmaking (Lithography), 2023

Photograph showing a bike-rider moving past parked cars and houses on a closed street.

Ashley Garcia, School Pick-up, Photography, 2024

A skeleton cast in dark blue light with black shadows.

Ashley Garcia, Esqueleto en Azul, Photography, 2024

Black and white overhead view of lockers in a school hallway filled with water and covered in sea creatures with a giant sea turtle and sharks swimming.

Ashley G. Palomar, The Sea Obtain, Drawing, 2023

Black and white city scene with large planets and constellations in the sky and an astronaut looking upwards.

Rebecca Velasco, Space Visiting Chicago, Drawing, 2024

Black and white portrait of a woman with closed eyes.

Joana Jimenez, Breathe, Drawing, 2023

Six black and white portraits of people in various positions.

Alicia Valadez, Face study, Drawing, 2023-2024

Black and white image of a figure tucked into a cave

Yingxin Chen, Sleeping, Drawing, 2024

Sculpture of three stacked rings in dark blue, purple, and light blue colors. Each ring has a small shape suspended within it which is illuminated by a light below.

Nia Colquitt, Circular Dimensions, Sculpture, 2023

Pink ceramic vase with two heads and a hole through the middle. Sparkly gemstones are embedded in the vase along the bottom.

Nia Colquitt, Two-Headed Geode Vase, Ceramic, 2023 

Green and red dripping monster with one eye over a purple background with red dots.

Colin Robertson, gypbogeyman, Printmaking, 2023

Purple dripping monster with the words "slime man" overtop.

Colin Robertson, Slime man, Printmaking, 2022

Eight black and white abstract photographs.

Juan David Ruiz Borbón, Reflections on Reality (Series), Photography, 2023

Two black and white abstracted figures. One is lifting the other up by their leg.

Alice Kricheli, BOOST, Mixed Media, 2024

Wire corset with light blue lace and blue beading next to a foam head wearing wire face jewelry with blue beading.

Brooklyn Starks-Murphy, The pain in the gorgeous, Sculpture, 2024

Black and white abstract scene with faces.

Juan David Ruiz Borbón, Paisaje metafisico colombiano (De la serie "Culpa metafisica"), Drawing, 2024

Black and white print with two faces, one with their tongue out and making a peace sign with their hand. There is a barcode in the bottom lefthand corner and the word "sweetie" is in the upper lefthand corner.

Camilo Perez, Sweetis, Printmaking, 2024

Orange alien astronaut holding a blaster with various squiggly monstrous forms surround them in orange and yellow colors over a black background.

Camilo Perez, Space ink, Printmaking, 2024

Black and white print of a seated woman in front of a car and Route 66 road sign, holding a plate stacked with pancakes and placing a ballot into a voting box. The image is surrounded by a flowered frame.

Victory Ali, Juanita "Grammy" Ali, Printmaking, 2024

Three crows holding weapons in the beaks and wings haul a cat over a pond with a rope. The cat has a fish wrapped in its tail and another fish looks on from the pond below. The image is colored in various subtle blue tones.

Ari Dorshkind, Murder Accomplice, Printmaking (Screenprint), 2024

Three flowers growing from the grass in a row with human faces. The scene is colored in various shades of green and white.

Atziry Castaneda, It's an Early Spring, Printmaking, 2024

Black and white photo of pedestrians walking along a sidewalk overlooking water with tables and chairs lining the fence and tree branches hanging over the top lefthand corner of the image.

Atziry Castaneda, Shared Sidewalk, Photography, 2023

Abstracted image with various blobs in black, red, brown, pink, and white.

Julian Correa, IS IT TOO LATE. OR SHOULD I LET GO, Printmaking, 2024

Black and white image of a skeleton with small sheep lining the bottom.

Julian Correa, 5:2-4, Printmaking, 2023

A bird creature clings to a log in a swamp, surrounded by cattails. The creature is orange, beige, and brown, the cattails are green and orange, and the water and background are blue.

Olivia Kinker, Spirit of the Swamp, Printmaking, 2023

Black and white image of three anthropomorphized birds bowing down and presenting an offering to a larger bird creature perched in a tree. The scene takes place in a swamp at night with a full moon in the sky.

Olivia Kinker, The Offering, Printmaking, 2024

Two dolls hold their heads in their hands. The dolls have checkered dresses in red and black with white lace and the heads have button eyes.

Dafne Calderon, Muñequitas Moribundas with Ten Toma Poem, Mixed Media, 2023

An overhead view of a pink and white ceramic vase holding a yellow and pink daisy with green sprouts.

Dafne Calderon, Vases for Broken and Discarded Blooms, Ceramic, 2024

Two partially drawn skeleton figures in blue and red colors are positioned next to each other on the left side of the image amongst cursive script.

Alyson Sanchez, The Lovers, Mixed Media, 2024

Multiple cats in a bath and on top of a sink in a bathroom with a large window, multiple plants, and blue tile walls.

Karen Sanchez, Splash, Splash, Cat's Taking a Bath, Painting, 2023

Triptych of the same image in three different colors: gray, red, and white. The image shows eight L trains suspended in the air creating a pinwheel shape.

Michele d'Alessandro, L, Mixed Media, 2024

Diptych with abstracted skeletal figures on each side. The left side has black, red, and yellow colors and the right side has blue, green, yellow, and black colors

Alyson Sanchez, Illusion of Perception, Mixed Media, 2024

Pink dog face peering underwater with yellow and red lightning strikes extending outwards and a long skeleton among the bottom.

Karen Sanchez, The Peculiar Pulse, Painting, 2023

Two black and white side-by-side photographs of a stairway. The left side has a partially invisible figure at two different points of the stairs.

Michele d'Alessandro, Momentary, Photography, 2023

Orange, seated human silhouette surrounded by black squiggles on a white background.

Vanessa De La Torre, Broken Shadows, Mixed Media, 2023

Cross-stitch portrait of Frida Kahlo on an embroidery ring. Frida has red flowers in her hair, a red and green top, and gold earrings and the necklace.

Isabel Feliciano, Frida Kahlo Portrait, Crafts/Cross-Stitch, 2024

Black and white photograph of a library hallway with ceiling lamps, bookshelves, and a book cart. A lone figure walks toward the end of the hallway.

Jackie Canales, Harold Washington Library, Photography, 2023

Black and white image of a castle with tentacled beast and moon phases overhead. More tentacles and skulls cover the bottom half of the image.

Mingyue Li, Night of Terror, Drawing, 2024

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