Last year, the Student Health Center, with the help of the Student Wellness Ambassadors, launched a new Mental Health Art Exhibit. We reached out to all Ohlone students and staff for personal art submissions with the theme of mental health and created a whole gallery to showcase them.
This year, we are bringing back the exhibit, but opening up submission to all kinds of themes! We understand that all types of art can be therapeutic and expressive. We want to open this opportunity for anyone who wants to express themselves.and to not limit the art relating to mental health.
So what are you waiting for! Get those creative minds working and put the brush to the canvas. You can submit any medium of art to StudentHealth@ohlone.edu to be showcased here in this gallery.
Submissions
Khanh Le
Title: “5-year-old-me and my Day Off Memory.”
Medium: Digital
Description: I believe most of us were kind of like only one food when we were young and we could eat it day by day without any complaint.
Khanh Le
Title: “5-year-old-me and my After School Memory.”
Medium: Digital
Description: I want to express one of great memories from my childhood, which is the old days when my mom took me from kindergarten. I think that was the time my mom and I had a lot of chances to talk with each other, and I really miss that moment.
Lisa Brown
Title: “Little Birdy”
Medium: Watercolor painting
Description: I wanted to learn how to paint so I took that extra time to do that. I started a painting series called "Friday Morning Breakfast Painting on the Patio.” Each week I would wake up early and go outside to the patio to paint. I did a painting every Friday for 20 weeks! "Little Birdy" was my last painting in that series.
Erica Fernandez
Title: “UNDER MINE”
Medium: Digital art
Description: There is no real reason aside from the idea of losing one's self and identity.
Angela Dumatol
Title: Ponyo & Sosuke from Ponyo
Medium: Gouache paint, posca markers, and sharpie.
Description: It has been 4 years since I completed a painting piece so I wanted to practice my painting skills this time by recreating a scene from an animated movie/show and this scene from Ponyo seemed easiest to me to recreate
Osvaldo Granados
Title: "Junkrat" and "Roadhog from Overwatch"
Medium: Acrylic
Description: In my art piece, I depict the characters "Junkrat" and "Roadhog" from the popular multiplayer game "Overwatch", released in 2016. I painted this piece about 2 years ago for my final in my junior year art class and I'm still quite proud of it to this day. Without hardly having any experience with painting, both from life and my art class, I was able to create a piece that I proudly hang at home.
Krina Shah
Title: "When You Leave..."
Medium: Poem
Description: This poem describes the feeling of the people who are living in a long distance relationship or friendship. The poem says that when someone leaves, life goes on, but nothing is the same without them. All the moments they once cherished together will not have the same feeling even though they will still be under the same sky. And while nature will be witnessing their pain, they will be just breathing.
When you leave...
When you leave, the sun will hide, scared, to shed tears. The clouds will be gone, and the sky will be blue, just plain blue. When you will witness this, you will realize my pain, my pain of watching you leave, going distant. The road back home will not be same, the music, the dance, the laughter will not be joyous, all will watch the empty seat as I drive. After few months, as you sit watching snow storm hit your windows, you will miss the sun under which we lived. You will miss the rain under which we went to long drives, uncertain yet happy. The Californian sun will shine and shower it's beauty but will it be same without "us"?
When you leave, memories will become my appetite. Because living under the same sky, as they say, is not same because my winters will be, forever, different than yours.
Tammy Nguyen
Title: "Chairs"
Medium: Colored pencils and acrylic
Description: This is a quick still life rendition of a photograph I found on the internet (credit unknown). I was captivated by the textures of the chairs and aimed to emphasize it in my drawing by dramatizing the light source and creating heavy contrast between colors.
Samuel Di Gregorio
Title: Gray Hat
Medium: Microsoft PowerPoint
Description: Hackers are categorized either as “white hat” or “black hat”, representing good and bad hackers respectively. This piece is digital self-portrait, and a commentary that no single person is either entirely good or entirely bad. Life is not simply black and white, and we all fall somewhere on a spectrum of gray.
Samuel Di Gregorio
Title: Honeypot
Medium: Microsoft PowerPoint
Description: I’ve always wanted to get into video game design. If life was a video game, this would be my character.
Samuel Di Gregorio
Title: Gotham’s Greetings
Medium: Microsoft PowerPoint
Description: I’ve always loved the stories and the art from Batman. This is my concept for a greeting card from the Joker to Batman. Fun fact: That is a picture of me on the left dressed up as the Joker. On the right, that is NOT a picture of me dressed up as Batman. Also this is just art, so please don’t put me on the FBI watchlist. Ha, ha, ha, ha...
Carissa Samuel
Title: Being Home
Medium: Poetry
Description: I wrote this poem at the beginning of the lockdown. I remember feeling frustrated with life and the lack of sunshine in mine. Just expressing my thoughts helped me find a little ray of joy. I think our time right now when we are alone and bored helps us to stop and find who we are instead of always doing more and more. I hope you all can learn to just be too!
Ram Charan
Title: "Distressed Rhythm"
Medium: Brown and White Charcoal Pencil
Description: As I began tenth grade I helped create a school band with my friends and learned to play various instruments. This piece is meant to capture my learning experiences and the frustration that would often accompany playing difficult rolls and fills on the snare drum. I used charcoal pencil and charcoal on sketching paper to create this piece from observation; the juxtaposition of myself playing however was from a photograph. 18x24"
Ram Charan
Title: "Portrait of Pati"
Medium: Oil paint on Canvas
Description: This portrait overlays the older and younger versions of my grandmother. The yellow and green skin is the older version of her while the pink and blue skin is the younger version of her. In the background, there is a sari, an article of traditional clothing that she wears with a specific pattern that feels very much like her. I used oil paint on canvas to complete this painting project.
Ram Charan
Title: "Pleasanton Pleasantries"
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Description: This short series of panels was meant to document my experience, post-quarantine beginning, of traveling to Pleasanton with some friends. We ate ice cream at meadowlark in downtown Pleasanton, and on the way there walked past various structures and buildings I found interesting. The glove represents the beginning of the journey and the key to the car, as the last panel represents the end of the journey to when I decided to go back home.
Khanh Le
Title: “The Mountains Behind My House on Summer Days”
Medium: Digital
Description: The grass of the mountains behind my house has changed into dark yellow in summer and I wonder if I could paint them with brighter colors.
Khanh Le
Title: “The Mountains Behind My House at Midnight”
Medium: Digital
Description: One night, the sky was so dark and I imagined as if above us was not the sky but the universe.
Jade Baas
Title: Cities//Roads//Universe
Medium: Poetry
Jade Baas
Title: Mother
Medium: Poetry
Jade Baas
Title: Behind The Shadows
Medium: Photograph
Description: The sun peaks and bleeds through the shadows to remind you, there’s still life in light and it’s beautiful when brightness takes control of you.
Jade Baas
Title: Black Beauty
Medium: Digital Art
Description: This is to show how beautiful Black women are, their lives hold as much importance as anyone else’s. Their beauty is to be respected.
Jade Baas
Title: Break The System
Medium: Digital Art
Description: A rebellion against the election, law enforcement and any other oppressors against the people of America.
Jade Baas
Title: Casual Conversation
Medium: Photograph
Description: Are you able to speak for hours alongside someone without typing your thoughts to each other?
Apri Varonikyan
Title: Because of You
Medium: Jewelry, rope, yarn, string, wood, thumbtacks, buttons, chain, hemp, balsa wood, candlewick, wax, gesso, nails, teabags, and wire.
Description: Here I have used all the materials I could find at home to create a physical embodiment of a broken heart that is trapped in its pain. In this piece I have created a heart, withered, and blacked. Through the center, a golden arrow made of wire pierces through. The wound is wrapped in dangling red string dripping down to the surface of the base. The tip of the arrow is dipped in red wax that pours down to the base where there is a weaving of red string that puddles and moves down the side like a fluid. Eight black stems grow from the sides of the base repeated all around in different proportions, surrounding the heart like a thorny cage as it is suspended in the center.
Nicole Tran
Title: "I love Mater”
Medium: Water Mixable Oil Paint
Description: Lightning McQueen car movie is so legendary that it has been since it first came out in 2006. Mater has a lot of charms, funny and cute. My sister is a big fan of Mater so she asked me to draw Mater for her. This painting is dedicated to my sister. I haven't learned perspective drawing but I used pallette knife to create brush strokes.
Nicole Tran
Title: The PinoCup
Medium: Water Mixable Oil Paint
Description: The mixture of bright color such as red, yellow, green is meant to uplift the mood of the viewer. It can also intensify the feeling, and emotion of attachment since red has a strong emotion and yellow brings joy and happiness. Pinochio is a very popular fictional cartoon character for many kids of many generations. I managed to use numerous brushstrokes for this painting to apply what I learned.
Julain Henri Leuterio
Title: Kirby Daifuku
Medium: Digital art
Description: Kirby as a strawberry mochi sliced in half.
Julian Henri Leuterio
Title: Fake Gold on My Hoops
Medium: Glitter, gouache, ink, and watercolor
Description: A small portrait of Lolo Zouaï, a singer raised in San Francisco, surrounded by paint doodles.
Julian Henri Leuterio
Title: Kirby Dango
Medium: Digital art
Description: Six unique Kirby faces on a pair of dango sticks.
Julian Henri Leuterio
Title: Toxic Puppetry
Medium: Mixed media
Description: A theatrical artwork depicting toxic masculinity.
Alexander Medina
Title: Sea Tide
Medium: Music via GarageBand
Description: So this track called Sea Tide, I created this one morning and there is a new Garageband Keyboard Collection sound pack, so I've instantly downloaded the sound pack, testing a lot of new sounds and synths, and once I was listening to this one atmospheric synth sound, I went, "I should make a stress-free track," so I did. What I put in the track was this good, calm beat and a vibraphone. As you listen to the track, you're gonna visualize yourself looking out at the sea, breathing in and out. Imagine being at a beach, looking out at the outer sea as the tides are coming in, passing it by your feet, feeling the good sound of the waves. This is more of a meditation kind of track, it is a stress-free type of music, no vocals. A chill sound, relaxingly beautiful and therapeutic. If you want to pause from all the hard stuff, feeling stressed or take a moment to destress yourself, This track represents that. So... this is Sea Tide.
Samuel Di Gregorio
Title: Message From The Mindless Drone
Medium: Rap - Soundtrap
Description: A commentary on our nation’s history, politics, and the current social state of America. Special thanks to Professor Madden for this assignment. Special thanks to Davie504 for the instrumental track.
Samuel Di Gregorio
Title: Into the Dream
Medium: Instrumental - GarageBand
Description: I wrote this song to capture the emotions of love, pain, and hope.
Khanh Le
Title: “The Mountains Behind My House on Cloudy Days”
Medium: Digital
Description: The sunset on cloudy days makes such a wonderful scene and I want to express that dreamlike land, also the mountains behind my house.
Khanh Le
Title: “Mai Ky Han
Medium: Digital
Description: This was inspired by a model named Mai Ky Han and her photoshoot in Dalat, Vietnam - which shows the connection between human and nature.
Jade Baas
Title: Take Me Into Your Attention
Medium: Poem
Jade Baas
Title: Knees
Medium: Poem
Jade Baas
Title: Happiness
Medium: Photograph
Description: The reason for your smile differs from mine, but I’m intrigued on what pulls your lip strings.
Jade Baas
Title: In The Middle Of The 1500s
Medium: Photograph
Description: If modern San Francisco had a 1500 era makeover.
Jade Baas
Title: Reflection
Medium: Photograph
Description: Why do you think the way you do when you see yourself?
Jade Baas
Title: Rise in Power
Medium: Photograph
Description: A hidden gem within 24th Mission Street, a dedication of remembrance for all the lives taken from police brutality.
