Check out the imaginative and high-profile work of five SVA students, some of whom are about to graduate and head out into the workforce.
An image from Caitlin Du’s comic Fly Child.
An image from Caitlin Du’s comic Fly Child.
May is here, classes are over, summer is almost upon us, and our commencement exercises are right around the corner. As SVA students prepare to either graduate, enter the workforce, or take the summer off to revitalize themselves in preparation for next semester, we have selected five Instagram accounts that typify the hard work talented students of the College are producing year-round.
1. Caitlin Du (MFA Illustration as Visual Essay)
Du makes comics and editorial illustrations with ink on paper and vibrant colors. She describes her work as “expired childhood,” owing to their balance of naive nostalgia and dark motifs. Though her illustrations are vibrant and whimsical, they often depict difficult themes such as family trauma, isolation, and death.
Follow her at @phantalism.
2. Jake Breiter (BFA Comics)
Jake Breiter is a cartoonist and illustrator who goes by the pseudonym “Monty Mulberry.” Breiter, who won the SVA Alumni Society Bob Guglielmo Memorial Award, aims to reunite childlike curiosity and fascination towards the unfamiliar with the adults we all aspire to be.
Follow him at @monty_mulberry.
3. Jieun Cheon (MFA Fine Arts)
A Korean-born multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of perception and understanding, Jieun Cheon synthesizes different media, including drawing, sculpture, painting, printmaking, texts, and various craft methods into her work.
Follow her at 0_uncanished_workld.
4. Phoenix Logan (BFA Film)
A cinematographer, writer, and director, Phoenix Logan is originally from Pennsylvania and is currently living in New York while he studies at SVA. Logan aspires to tell complicated, emotional human stories with a surreal twist, and his short film, The Pleasure of Being Someone Else, was recently featured at the BFA Film thesis showcase at the SVA theatre.
Follow him at phoenixtlogan.
5. Xiaoyan Sun (BFA Illustration)
A Chinese native raised in Romania, Sun’s style, in media such as editorial illustrations, book covers, children’s books, and toy designs, incorporates bright colors, soft graphics, and rich textures, bringing a fantastical world within her imagination to life.
Follow her at @xiaoyanillus.