FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ART AND PERFORMING ARTS
STUDENT SHOW 2022 | WITH WORKS BY STUDENTS FROM
FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ART AND PERFORMING ARTS
STUDENT SHOW 2022 | WITH WORKS BY STUDENTS FROM
SHOW CURATOR | BARTHOLOMEW F. BLAND
is a curator and writer based in New York City, specializing in contemporary and 19th-century American art. He is the Executive Director of Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, and was previously Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Affairs for the Hudson River Museum. He has conceptualized and organized more than 50 museum exhibitions. Most recently ― “Eco-Urgency”, co-organized by Wave Hill and the Lehman College Art Gallery, “Alien Nations 2020”, presented by the Coral Gables Museum and the Lehman College Art Gallery and “The Color of the Moon”, which appeared at the Hudson River Museum and the Michener Art Museum. Among other exhibitions: “ The Seven Deadly Sins” (2015), Fairf ield Westchester Museum Alliance; “Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York’s Rivers”, (2013), which traveled to the Norton Museum of Art; “Oh Panama! Jonas Lie Paints the Panama Canal”, (2016), which traveled to the James A . Michener Art Museum; and “American Dreamers: Reality and Imagination in Contemporary Art” (2012), for the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Curatorial projects: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL; Coral Gables Museum, FL; Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami; Concordia College, Bronxville, NY; Ronchini Gallery, London; Pierogi Gallery, NY; Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence; Vivant Books and Skira editore, Milan.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE TEACHERS AND MENTORS WHO INSPIRE A LIFETIME OF LEARNING & LOVE FOR THE ARTS MS. AISENSON, MS. BUTTERER, MS. CURIALE, MR. DOMENCH, MR. DRIGGERS, MR. JUNG, MS. KIM, MS. MANIOTIS, MS. MULVIHILL, MR. NACHTMANN, MS. PARK, MS. RILEY, MS. ROSS, MS. SCHWARZ, MS. SOBOLA, MR. STEHLE, MR. VIGLIS HEATHER O’CONNELL POLACIK, SUSAN FERUGIO, MARIE WOLPERT ANNEMARIE TAMIS-NASELLO, KANOKWAN SIRE, ERICA REAVES, PAULA TROTTO, GREGG KESSLER J. MACKEY GALLERY ARTISTS & ARCHITECTS ELIZA GEDDES, THE ESTATE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR PINAJIAN, EMILY BROWN, STEPHEN HAWKEY, LYNDAL VERMETTE NJ CAINE ARCHITECTURE, EAST HAMPTON | NEW YORK
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SPECIAL MUSIC BY | SOPHOMORE JAZZ ENSEMBLE EZRA KESSLER / DRUMS, BIX COLE / KEYBAORD, KAI UEMARA / GUITAR, JACK MCSHANE / SAXOPHONE
NATALIE ABRAMOV
SOPHOMORE / BROOKLYN / @NATALIE__ABS
The Inner Extrovert | 11 x 14 in. | Painting “The Inner Extrovert” is a piece that focuses on the inner core of a typical human. A wild mind presented with countless memories and the individual aspects of each brush stroke. Clear gloss gel marks indicate the memorable experiences that are reached at one’s certain point of content. Once you think you’ve seen one part of this individual, there’s more to them.
JULIE ANIKEYEV
JUNIOR / BROOKLYN / @JU1IE.ART
A New Beginning | 16 x 20 in. | Painting I chose to paint a Chrysanthemum to symbolize my feelings towards Spring. This flower represents enduring life and rebirth, which perfectly captures the beauty of the season. Spring is a breath of fresh air that welcomes the beginning of a new year and the blooming of flowers and youth in nature.
MUSRICUL ANWAR
JUNIOR / BROOKLYN / @MUSRICAL_ANWAR_ART
Eggplant | 12 x 29 in. | Mixed Media Small Canvas | 8 x 8 in. | Painting, Mixed Media I love to try new things to create art and I challenge myself to try different media. During the pandemic, I was thinking of trying something new and I ended up drawing on eggshells. I started to love doing that. I also enjoy going outside to draw and being in nature.
LUNA BAKER-STOHLMANN
SENIOR / BROOKLYN / @BONOBOART.LBS
Gracie | 16 x 16 in. | Painting (LEFT) This is the first painting in my Subway Series, which focuses on celebrating the people around me following the isolation of the pandemic. I drew influence from Renaissance portraits that, in a way, depicted people as symbols of power and strength. Turso | 16 x 16 in. | Painting (RIGHT) This is the second painting in my Subway Series. This painting focuses on how people responded to being generally stationary as the world rapidly changed around them during the Covid-19 pandemic. I hoped to show an intimate and personal strength in the face of that change.
JAKE BARBARINE
SENIOR / MANHATTAN / @JAKEB_ART
Overhead | 24 x 36 in. | Painting (LEFT) Sunrise on Hillside | 10 x 12 in. | Painting (RIGHT) I pull inspiration from classical painting themes and combine them with modern techniques. I mostly work in oil paint, but I have recently been experimenting with mixed media works.
CHLOE CHOW
SOPHOMORE / QUEENS / @C.LOOEY
Sound of Pastel | 18 ½ x 24 ½ in. | Mixed Media The pandemic has taken a huge toll on teenagers around the world, whether it be on their mental or physical health. Quarantine especially made me lose interest and feel unmotivated in everything. Using acrylic on cardboard, I painted this piece to demonstrate my yearning to go out and enjoy the little moments of listening to performances outside.
BELLA DOU
FRESHMAN / STATEN ISLAND / @_BELLA_DOU_
Colorful Chaos | 8.5 x 32 in. | Illustration / Painting I am inspired by hallucinations and visions; vivid, surreal, and absent-minded. Everywhere you look is color and confusion, kind of like life.
ALEXANDRA DOVAS
JUNIOR / BROOKLYN
Street Market | Photography (TOP RIGHT) This photo was taken at a street market in Brooklyn. It was interesting to me because it was a table full of stones, carvings, and jewelry, but it was all thrown together. The different colors stand out and the angle makes it appear that it goes on forever. Self Portrait | 8.5 x 11 in. | Digital Media (BOTTOM RIGHT) This is a self-portrait from a photo I took of myself. It was made using Adobe Illustrator in my digital media class, and I painted directly on top of the image. It was definitely a challenge to make a flat digital painting appear as 3D as the original photograph, but I used many different values to try to replicate the effects of the lighting.
SHELLY FATAL JUNIOR / QUEENS / @SHELLY_EXPERIMENTS Ethan’s Elephant | 20 x 16 in. | Painting This piece is a representation of the haze that surrounds childhood memories as we become continually distanced from those first few years. It is meant to provoke more questions than answers, calling to mind the subjectivity and mystery of past experiences.
AUBREY FOWLES
JUNIOR / MANHATTAN
Fail | 23.5 x 17.5 in. | Painting The presentation of my painting seems glossy, alluring, and innocent, like cosmetic advertising and packaging. However, if one chooses to look before buying into the allure, they will see the painting is made up of the horror of animal testing. Each rabbit was cut out individually, representing all the individual animals being impacted by animal testing. Look closer at cosmetics.
CHIARA GIARDINA
JUNIOR / BROOKLYN / @HEYOCHIARA A Walk With Dad | 9 x 12 in. | Painting
I was taking a walk with my dad one day across a winding bridge, and when it came time to round another turn, I paused to look at a circular mirror ahead of me. What grabbed my attention was that, by looking in the mirror, you could see the other side of the bridge you were about to walk on; I could see my dad, already yards ahead, shrinking in the distance. When looking at the image it seems as though you’ve hit a wall, but when looking at the mirror it’s clear that there’s so much road left to travel, and that’s the idea I hope viewers focus on in this painting.
YASMIN GOSHEN JUNIOR / MANHATTAN / @BUMBLEEMUMBLE Lost in the Grocery Store | Digital Media My digital artwork, “Lost in the grocery store,” is meant to communicate the feeling of being lost in familiar places. The “grocery store” is a familiar place turned strange, foreign, and almost alien under the context of not being able to navigate it.
GIZELLA HARTE
FRESHMAN / QUEENS
Self Portrait | 14.5 x 18 in. | Illustration (LEFT) This piece was created to incorporate the contrast between light and dark. One side of the face is extremely bright, containing most highlights in the piece, while the background is black. This was done to draw focus to the portrait rather than a busy background. The Bay | 12 x 4 in. | Painting (RIGHT) This piece was created with summers in East Hampton in mind. Nearly every single day in the summer, my family and I go to a beach which we call “the Bay beach”.
MONICA HERNANDEZ JUNIOR / MANHATTAN / @MONICASPHOTOFACTORY Her | 13 x 19 in. | Photography You don’t know her, yet having seen her for the first time, unfamiliarity is torn away and curiosity seeps in. The dark shadows emulate mystery, yet there’s just enough light to highlight the most important aspect of this portrait. Her eyes. Her eyes by themselves tell her story. It is up to the viewer to depict it’s ambiguity. As an artist, I wish to use my abilities to tell stories that words cannot. People often ignore the words that come out of others, but a simple photo can go a long way into sparking conversation.
ELIJAH HOLLMANN
JUNIOR / MANHATTAN / @ELIJAH.HOLLMANN_ART
Grand Organ | 22 x 18 in. | Illustration / Painting In the center of the royal cathedral lies a grand organ. A window looks out into the vast kingdom. At the bottom sits a pianist about to strike a chord, the echoing chambers awaiting its melody.
LILY JAZZ HOSOTANI
JUNIOR / MANHATTAN / @KIRO.AWA
Chihako Series | Ceramics Child (Kodomo) 4 x 5 in., Mother (Hahaoya) 11 x 22 in. and Father (Chichioya) 6 x 9.5 in.
In Japan, there are many expectations of an ideal family. In a traditional Japanese family, the women of the family are typically known for caretaking and household affairs. And the men are expected to be responsible for the finances and are perceived as being the “head of the household”. I grew up with Japanese parents and growing up was different for me because my mother was basically the head of the household. These sculptures are from my series named “Chihako”. The name comes from the words “child” (kodomo), “mother” (hahaoya) and “father” (chichioya). This artwork is a body of work which consists of objects made of clay with 3 layers of white glaze coat. It took about 4 months to shape. Out of the three works, the largest piece represents how my mother is a hard working woman who is always thinking about her family.
EMMA HUANG
SENIOR / MANHATTAN / @HHYEYANI
Mother and Son | 24 x 30 in. | Painting This work is inspired by a scene that I witnessed while on the bus. It depicts a mother gently but firmly holding her son’s head as she looks off somewhere into the distance. The quiet resolve and unconditional love that she showed really stuck with me, resulting in the creation of this painting.
LIA HUSZTI SOPHOMORE / BROOKLYN / @RECLUSIVEEXTROVERT Untitled | Printmaking The idea for this piece came from a quick short story I wrote in English class that was meant to convey emotion. I wanted to capture the feeling of it in a picture as well. The emotions I meant to convey were fear, anxiousness, and wonder.
SOLANGE JAIN
SENIOR / QUEENS / @SOLANGE.JAIN_ART_ Blue Bus | 5.5 x 10.5 in. | Painting
This monochromatic painting renders what I see on my route home from school every day. The Q23 bus is the bus that I took every day in middle school and which I still cross paths with, even in high school. I like seeing that a little part of my childhood will never change as I get older.
LANA LABELLE
SENIOR / QUEENS / @LANAB.ELLE
Into The Looking Glass | 24 x 18 in. | Painting / Mixed Media This piece depicts a person looking into a fishbowl that consists of greenery, fish and decorative statues. The coexistence of the Greek statues and the fish in a single atmosphere represents how I interpret entire spaces as art, rather than just the artwork itself. Strawberry Song | 108 x 44 in. | Painting I created this painting with acrylic paint on muslin. I love strawberries and wanted to share the melodic moment of biting into a strawberry through my expressive strokes.
LISA LI Fallen Soldier | Painting / Mixed Media
VICKI LI Picnic | 10 x 12 in. | Painting “Picnic” is that one painting that will forever remind me of warm summer days spread out on a striped red picnic blanket. There is a vintage vibe brought by the aesthetics of the car which compliments the different shades of red and blue around it. I also like to believe that the purpose of the car in this painting is to support the bold red of the striped cloth with a more relaxed, pastel teal. It is also someone’s toy which they may bring to supply amusement and joy on a family picnic. I hope to achieve that same feeling with this painting.
ANGELA LIN
JUNIOR / BRONX / @ANGANDHEREASEL INPRNT.COM/GALLERY/ANGELALIN.ARTS
Sorry for playing with my food | 16 x 20 in. | Painting Angela Lin hopes to express deep emotions and profound ideas in her artwork. Her work encompasses her experience of the internal conflicts inherent in growing up as a first generation Chinese American. Her colorful, dynamic, and sometimes surreal compositions are a reflection of her infinite fixation on reality and dreams.
JIAXIN LIN
JUNIOR / QUEENS / @JIAXIN0_0ART
Elegant Traditional Flute | 8.5 x 11 in. | Digital Media A traditional Chinese bamboo flute, is often overlooked by the modern flute, which results in less popularity and the loss of appreciation. This piece highlights the beauty of the traditional Chinese bamboo flute while also informing others about slowly forgotten traditional instruments.
CADEN LOEVEN
JUNIOR / BROOKLYN
Untitled | Dimensions | Sculpture I love working in 3D mediums. This is the second semester of my sculpture class and I love the feel of clay in my hands. Our first class project was a bust of ourselves. For our second project, I wanted to do an abstract piece that demonstrates the flexibility of clay. This piece is based on a clay maquette where I let my hands go free. I created this stone piece with hammer and chisel.
LYDIA LUO JUNIOR / PLACE / @LYDIA_THE_LORD Untitled | 13 x 19 in. | Photography Experimenting with the night and moving lights I captured images through the manual settings. I was in a moving car that was driving through a bridge. I quickly calibrated my camera like I was defusing a bomb to take the photo before we left the path and away from the streams of car lights passing by. The moving lights reflected from the car mirrors and my camera lens created an abstract dynamic composition of line lights.
UMA MALDONADO
JUNIOR / QUEENS
Portrait | 9 x 12 in. | Painting Creating this painting, I hoped to develop my technique in color matching and focus on the subtle differences of color. I experimented with water soluble oil paints, and loose brush strokes. I liked capturing the effortless glow of the portrait through my painting.
RUHANGIZ MARDONOVA Evenness of the Mind | Painting Within this piece, I explored oil paint for the first time. I enjoyed taking my time blending in the skin tones and layering color onto the poppies. A key word that inspired this piece was “composure.”
APRIL MATA
SENIOR / BROOKLYN
Tearaway | 22.5 x 18 in. | Mixed Media Playing with the idea of life and death, I took to the human body and its skeleton to express how time affects one’s body. As time moves on in life, one’s body begins to deteriorate with age and when objects begin to deteriorate, they fall apart and break away. With the body falling apart and breaking away, one is left with what they have in order to piece themselves back together.
PEDRO MORALES
JUNIOR / QUEENS
Forlorn Bouquet | 20.5 x 26 in. | Painting In the Fall, I set up a bunch of decorations around my house, including a still life of these flowers. I was looking at this arrangement at night when the lights were off except for those in the other room. I saw how beautifully the light touched the flowers, which had created a gorgeous contrast between the yellow and the darkness. I knew then I had to paint it.
ANNA OLSZOWKA
JUNIOR / QUEENS
Invasion | 20 x 16 in. | Painting I enjoy creating art to show the beauty of small and unnoticed things in our surroundings. When creating acrylic paintings, nature is my favorite subject matter, since it is seen as simple, but once you explore it, it reveals a new realm that is truly breathtaking.
KIMBERLY PIZHA
JUNIOR / MANHATTAN / @SRRYCHRIS
Path | 8.5 x 11 in. | Photography (RIGHT) This photo was taken during Carnival in Ecuador. During this celebration, the streets tend to be filled with people spraying foam and colored starch to one another. Roaming the streets, I came to a corner where a couple held a conversation. I was interested in capturing people in their environment, and instantly took a picture of them. They seemed like a contrast to the people on the streets who were filled with laughter. I was curious about everyone I saw - curious about their life, hobbies, and struggles. It wasn’t my intention for their faces to be obscured, but it further emphasizes my curiosity, and the people I will never get to meet.
Beginning Series | 13 x 19 in. | Photography (BOTTOM) I’ve never been completely comfortable with people taking pictures of me. So when approaching this self-portrait, I thought painting with light would be an interesting technique to use. I was in complete control of the light and could decide what to write or draw. The warm tone of the lighter and blue light added a nice contrast to the photo. I wrapped the light around me a couple of times trying to focus on certain parts of my face I wanted shown. I like to think that the parts shown depict parts of myself I have yet to figure out. Like a mystery I have yet to solve them within the years to come. And maybe someday I’ll be ready to share them.
NASHLEY RODRIGUEZ FRESHMAN / BRONX / @NASHLEYART_STUDIOS Unrecognized Beauty | 16 x 20 in. | Painting The human body is so wonderful to look at. It’s so symmetrical yet unsymmetrical and unique to each person. I believe everyone’s body and facial features are proportional to them - all perfect when you look at them for the first time. I used pastel yet vibrant colors to show how mesmerizing the human body is, using my brush strokes to show texture on the canvas, and dark blue designs to give the body the most attention possible.
KAI HENRY HENSON STACKPOLE JUNIOR / BROOKLYN Robodu | 8.5 x 11 in. | Digital Media I always enjoyed the thought of something nonhuman experiencing a very human moment. I feel that someday we will be able to reach a point where computers will be able to feel more wonder about the world than any of us will by that point.
ERICA STERN
JUNIOR / MANHATTAN
Houston Street | 13 x 19 in. | Photography This photo encapsulates how many working people, like this man, carry the weight of the city on their shoulders. While every person may be struggling with their own battles, it is our determination and perseverance as individuals to keep working and helping each other that keeps our society functioning.
JULIA WIN JUNIOR / QUEENS / @JWINS.ART Gluttony | Painting Working from observation, “Gluttony” portrays the time of peace after a long day and the hunger and satisfaction of a meal with a friend.
YVONNE WU JUNIOR / BROOKLYN / @PEACENLOVE4ALLXD Houston Street | 13 x 19 in. | Photography This piece features my original character, Mingzhu, a daughter of the noble carp family in an underwater empire. I created this piece based off of my inspiration and love for ancient Chinese clothing, called “Hanfu”, and my fascination with mermaids and koi fish. I wanted to illustrate the beauty of hanfu, Chinese culture, and my story of an underwater kingdom.
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