Spotlight Artist

Ariel Dill

Northeast
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Dappled

Abstract painting with swirling blue, black, and yellow shapes on a pale background.

acrylic, Flashe, and pencil on canvas

Blue

Abstract painting with swirling blue, turquoise, and purple shapes on a dark background.

acrylic, Flashe, and ink on canvas

Face of Leaves

Abstract painting with purple, yellow, and orange shapes on a dark background.

acrylic, Flashe, ink, and pencil on canvas

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Artist Statement

Ariel Dill paints abstractions that include visual occlusions, hiccups, and whorls. Bleary shapes spread across her canvases with moments of movement or focus that imply her compositions could be entered psychically. An intuitive process leads with color and pulls from a vocabulary of forms developed during the artist’s regular drawing sessions. Dill’s paintings invite the viewer to explore her anthropomorphized imagery and revel in their slippery nature.

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