Partial view of Riley Natividad's five canvas paintings, most closely featuring "We Walk Among You." The set display different facial features in a colorful array.
By To portray the inner and outer beauty of the LGBTQ+ community without romanticizing the subjects, “Reflections” welcomes all to learn about and normalize the LGBTQ+ community.
Long Beach State artists Bianca Joaquino, Jenni Huynh, Julie Nguyen and Riley Natividad showcase their individual takes on the topic of LGBTQ+ and its many forms.
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- Partial view of Riley Natividad’s five canvas paintings, most closely featuring “We Walk Among You.” The set display different facial features in a colorful array.
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- Bianca Joaquino’s three-piece set “r.chu,” “Ash” and “Casey” follows the different sexualities of the three subjects she interviewed. Each painting is coupled with a cartoon drawing underneath and a description of each subject’s sexual identity, how it shapes them and what each person would say to someone who wants to understand the LGBTQ+ community better.
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- Close-up of “Father Nature” by Jenni Huynh displays her own spin-off of mother nature through representing a transgender person.
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- Bianca Joaquino, Jenni Huynh, Julie Nguyen and Riley Natividad’s exhibit “Reflections” aim to evoke both internal and external natural beauties of the LGBTQ+ community.
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- Full view of Riley Natividad’s five piece canvas set, showing various colored full or partial sections of faces.
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- Julie Nguyen’s subject, Nikayla said “coming out to people was never a big deal, the hardest person to come out to was myself.” Nguyen tells eight unique stories in the LGBTQ+ community as she aims to “portray the beauty of the community.”
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- A view of Julie Nguyen’s pieces which display various LGBTQ+ people and respective quotes on their personal experiences.
