TWENTY TWENTY FOUR VOLUME 30 ISSUE 2
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THIS CALENDAR BELONGS TO:
EDITOR’S NOTE Memory is a theme very often used by artists. I’d even go so far as to say that, as artists, we’re
VO STAFF EDITOR IN CHIEF Olympe Gautier
lucky enough to put an image or a sentiment on memories that have fallen into oblivion or been erased;
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perhaps to keep a trace of them,
Angel Ye
or perhaps to understand them better. It’s a re-creation, a re-interpretation. Remembering is the opposite of forgetting. Remembering is a shared experience that often merges our personal memory with the collective memory. As conceptual artist Christian Boltanksi has said,
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EDITOR IN CHIEF INTERN Nandinie Andlay
“The beauty of being an artist is that we talk about our own memories, but it becomes everyone’s memory.” The works presented in this
MANAGING EDITOR INTERN Clarisse Lo
issue are all about memory and tradition. And in keeping with the tradition of Visual Opinion, Issue 2 is once again a calendar. So, use
DESIGN EDITOR INTERN Nicole Hsu
these pages to remember and keep a trace of what you did this year of two thousand and twenty-four.
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- Olympe Gautier
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CONTRIBUTORS
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VALENTINA BERDEGUE
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LEXI PAULINO
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MINGYI GAN
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ELENA KALKOVA
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LAN
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ALICE JUNG
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ROUCHKA
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CECIL Q YANG
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JILLIAN LERNER
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NELLA CLERSAINT
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LIDUO CHEN Spotlight Series 1 Digital photograph BFA Fine Arts 2026
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VALENTINA BERDEGUE Modern Geisha D i g i t a l / R i s o g r a p h p r i nt BFA Illustration 2024
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LEXI PAULINO F a m i l i a r S t r a n g e r s : H alf Siblings Collage BFA Fine Arts 2025
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MINGYI GAN Vertebrate P e n c i l o n p a p e r , D i g i tal BFA Illustration 2025
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ELENA KALKOVA I D o N o t K n o w A n y t h i n g Else W o v e n c a n v a s a n d a c r y lic MFA Art Practice 2024
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LAN Time Folding Watercolor BFA Illustration 2024
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ALICE JUNG Snippet Collage BFA Design 2024
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ROUCHKA No Sinners Here Gelatin Silver Print B F A P h o t o g r a p h y a n d V ideo 2024
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CECIL Q YANG Car Crash Hearts Acrylic BFA Animation 2025
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JILLIAN LERNER Constellation P h o t o t r a n s f e r , f a b r i c, lace, thread, yarn, wallpape r B F A P h o t o g r a p h y a n d V ideo 2024
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O a s i s/Mirage o n c e a n o a s i s c r o s s e d my mind w h e r e i ’ d j u s t b e h a p py in my happiness in my oasis m o r e l i k e m y mirage where i sit between two trees p l a y i n g a n i m aginary slide guitar
i w a n t e d t o b e t h e b e st but it was my mirage: s t a r i n g a t t h at slide guitar
NELLA CLERSAINT U n t i t l e d ( s o c i a l m e m o ries) Conte crayon on paper BFA Fine Arts 2024
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ELLE LIU Spaghetti Night M i x e d m e d i a ( g o u a c h e , color pencil, pastel) BFA Illustration 2025
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