OUR 2021 MASTERPIECES
Students Work
UNTITLED
Abrahim Abdelrahim
Mixed Media Diorama shows us that you don’t need to be a seasoned artist to create something amazing. We loved working on this Mixed Media Diorama project with Terry Smalls. This specific project gave us a chance to really shine bright, and impress our artists with all of our dedication. We did just that. Find out more about this process by contacting us today.
SUEÑOS DE CAFÉ (2021)
Bianca Anglero
Coffee, acrylic gel medium, thread, aluminum wire
3 x 5 ft.
This piece discusses the duality inherent in cash crop nations willingly adopting a position of servitude in the hope of growing and maintaining independent, self-sustaining economies. Further, it depicts the humanity forgotten in the process of these global transactions as it references the connection between labor, nature, and homeland.
LOST VOTE (2021)
Alex Barazani
Video
This piece is about the history of voter disenfranchisement that was and is used to secure political power and enforce a hierarchical structure benefiting the upper class. A structure founded atop white supremacy. A tool the powerful and privileged us to divide the working class in order to stem the immense power of a united working class.
PROJECT
Jahson Clarke
Video
RELEASE MY SOUL (2021)
Shayna Davis-Albert
Gouache
Size 12 x 18 in
This piece is a reflection of my mental state while making it. I went through a lot of emotions including mental breakdowns. By the time I had gotten to the circles which later became souls, I realized that I am okay. I just have to keep pushing through till the end. When the piece was done I ended up calling it Release my Soul because it generally sucked the life from me. I feel light and free now but, this piece now has a part of me with it.
I HOPE YOU CAN SEE THE SHAPE I’VE BEEN IN (2021)
Danielle Del Russo
Pencil Sketch was created late last year in a weekly class. The artist took it home — but we think it belongs in a museum. The Pencil Sketch project was a huge accomplishment of one of our artists and we are so pleased that Sammy Jones created such a beautiful example. Want to find out more? Get in touch with us today.
MIXED MEDIA DIORAMA
Raven George
Video
statement
EXPOSED (2021)
Moriah Gomez
We love to collaborate at The Prismatic Dream. This Still Life Painting was a project created by several of our students and instructors. We’re especially proud of our teamwork on the Still Life Painting project. Our artists and staff crafted a winning and creative approach to accomplishing all of their artistic goals.
PENCIL SKETCH
Justin Harris
Mixed Media
Size
FRAGMENTS (2021)
Sandro Janiashvili
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 36
statement
PRETTY LITTLE FEARS (2021)
Lauren Kornmann
Oil paint, marker.
36 x 48
A portrait of the hip hop artist J Cole. The lyrics to the left are from his verse off the track "Pretty Little Fears" with 6lack. It's one of his most genuine, warm-hearted, emotional, and loving verses he's ever written. The entirety of his brain, heart, and soul went into its production.
THE MIDNIGHT TRANCE (2021)
Jay Evans (Yamil Laboy)
Digital Mixed Media, Poetry
The Midnight Trance is a 5 part artistic thesis collective. Each poem is bent to simulate the notion of a poetic dream sequence through narrative monologue. As every poem is a recollection of an emotional passage of time until the current age, represented in poetic fashion. As each poem is a reflection of a personal favorite poem, backed by jazz.
DETECTIVE ON THE ROOFTOP
CRIME SCENE
THEFT
POLICE LINEUP
(2021)
Keanu Lee
Mixed Media Diorama shows us that you don’t need to be a seasoned artist to create something amazing. We loved working on this Mixed Media Diorama project with Terry Smalls. This specific project gave us a chance to really shine bright, and impress our artists with all of our dedication. We did just that. Find out more about this process by contacting us today.
WELCOME TO THE NEXT GENERATION (2021)
Sean Mcginnis
Digital Media
24 x 18 in
This piece is based on the technology evolution brought in the Fifth Generation of Gaming and some of the icons and technological advances of such evolution. I chose this generation because of its quirkiness and ambition of how games would play, planting the seeds for how our games play today.
GOD’S PRIDE (2021)
Arinn Shulman
Graphite and Acrylic on Paper
22 x 21.5 inch
This piece is based on the quote "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, it is an abomination" Leviticus 18:22. My rendering is an exploration of the stigma against the LGBT community vs. the premise that we are all God’s children.
WORDS SHOULDN’T MATTER (2021)
Tada Sorhaindo
Painting
9 x 12 inches
An acrylic paint canvas with LGBTQ couples with positive and negative words. No matter if people comment at your gay or lesbian relationship that is good or bad. Keep being you and enjoy your happiness and life.
ORIGIN (2021)
Marilu Valencia
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 in
Each vessel has a national flower, like the Lily from Italy, the Orchid from Colombia, the Cherry Blossom from Japan, and the Potrea from west Africa. All describing my ethnicity result.
TITLE (2021)
Christopher Vargas
Sketch Work
18x24 and 11x14 in
The origin behind a new comic book that is based on several other stories as well as forming together into an original. As well as a description and example of how it came to be.
TITLE #1 (2021)
Anthony Vergara
Mixed Media Diorama shows us that you don’t need to be a seasoned artist to create something amazing. We loved working on this Mixed Media Diorama project with Terry Smalls. This specific project gave us a chance to really shine bright, and impress our artists with all of our dedication. We did just that. Find out more about this process by contacting us today.
AM I STILL A WOMAN? (2021)
Emily Vernoski
Mixed Media on Canvas
24 x 36 in.
"Am I Still a Woman" explores how women are characterized within the advertisement industry. The Pearl Tobacco company logo released in 1880 launched my investigation of how women are portrayed and how they must feel about these unjust portrayals. In many cases, women dream of a day where they can be viewed as human instead of viewed as objects for the world's pleasure.
AFFLICTED (2021)
Lauren Vivirito
37.5 x 23 inches
Mixed Media
How do you know someone’s suffering from mental health? Do they have to “act out” to get attention? And even then, are they criticized for acting “not themselves”? Or are they the same person you’ve always known? Mental health issues are psychological illnesses that are constantly affecting the people around you. Whether you can see it or not. This piece is an exploration of the depression and anxiety I feel and it represents the metaphorical and literal feeling of entrapment. Being trapped by one’s own mind. And the deadpan expression is a reflection of the incredible amount of emotions being felt constantly, while still being forced to live life in a “normal” way.
RUN, WHYLY, RUN! (2021)
Mönday
Print on Poster
36 x 48
SERIES: NIGHT TERROR (2021)
Jahson
This series explores terror in its most organic form.
PENCIL SKETCH
Sammy Jones
Pencil Sketch was created late last year in a weekly class. The artist took it home — but we think it belongs in a museum. The Pencil Sketch project was a huge accomplishment of one of our artists and we are so pleased that Sammy Jones created such a beautiful example. Want to find out more? Get in touch with us today.