Tina Guo
MICA Competitive Scholarships Portfolio 2019-2020
I Don't Want to Be a Vessel I Just Want to Be a Whole (with three detail shots)
Acrylic on Plywood
4 x 5 ft
October 2019
A male and female figure expressing how empty spaces inside us are never quite filled with what comes in and out.
Worms in Space (with three detail shots)
Mixed Media and Hot Glue on Illustration Board
13 x 11.5 in each
December 2019
Forty drawings about time and space; how all animate things might look and move like worms, with time as the fourth dimension.
A normal man (with two detail shots)
Acrylic, Graphite, Faux Fur, Miniature Roosters, and Rubber Duck on Canvas
24 x 30 in
September 2019
A portrait of my father with imaginary tattoos of his childhood traumas.
Round and Round the Earth
Acrylic, Collage, and Assemblage on Found Car Hood
56 x 32 in
November 2019
The culmination of a series of photographs I took in the Beijing Capital International Airport parking lot. This piece is about looking for constants in transitory environments and specifics in non-places.
Veil
Mesh and spray paint on MDF, iPad
20 x 14.5 x 16 in
December 2019
A wearable headset simulating the veil of perception, the feeling of being permanently contained in one's body and the knowledge that everything one ever experiences is filtered down by it.
You Saved Bees by the Pool, All I Did Was Watch (3/3)
Artbreeder Animation
27 seconds
December 2019
Part of a video series animated with Joel Simon's Artbreeder about childhood perceptions of death.
Origin
Stop-Motion Animation
46 seconds
September 2019
A short animation about an absurd hero attempting to carve out a space in an arbitrary world.
