Patricia Ariel

Patricia Ariel is a contemporary Brazilian-American artist based in the Pacific Northwest. Although part self-taught, she had some formal instruction in visual arts that included classic drawing training and graphic and fashion design. Besides drawing and painting, Patricia has expressed herself since early age through different artistic languages like theater, dance, and music. Her decision to become a professional fine artist came only later, after leaving her homeland. Patricia’s art is strongly influenced by her spirituality and insights about the connections of men with nature and magic, and the spiritual/psychic dimensions. In her paintings of haunting and mysterious figures, she evokes her own experiences with loneliness, isolation, and inadequacy, as well as escapism and the search for transcendence fr om the material reality. Merging a realistic representation of the human figure with expressionistic abstracts, in an attempt to blend reality with the immaterial, Patricia creates a world of visual poetry wh ere light and darkness collide and reveal the symbolic and the mystical.

2018 Lost People, group show. Beau-Beau Art Festival, Tuscany, Italy. Spectral & Sepia, group show. The Inverarity Gallery, Aberdeenshire, UK. Revolve, group show. True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA. Insecta, group show. Sally Centigrade, Denver, Co. 2017 Masked Intentions, group show. Cass Contemporary, Tampa, FL. 3 AM, group show. Hudson Hughes Gallery, online. Aeternus, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, Eugene, OR. Beneath the Tumult, group show. Talon Gallery, Portland, OR. Beyond the Sea, group show. True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2016 Tremendum Fascinans, group show. True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA. The Coaster Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA. Bemused, group show. Featuring the Copycat Violence collective. Penumbra Gallery, Portugal. Beasts of Burden, group show. Sally Centigrade Gallery, Denver, CO. Oneirataxia, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, Mascoutah, IL. Geometries, group show. Featuring the Copycat Violence collective. Sally Centigrade Gallery, Denver, CO. Epeolatry, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, Mascoutah, IL. 2015 Phantastische Venus, group show. City of Viechtach,Germany. Myth, Magic & Lore, group show. Bash Contemporary, San Francisco, CA. Other Worlds, group show. The Hive Gallery & Studios, Los Angeles, CA. Heaven & Hell – Patricia Ariel & Steven Johnson Leyba, Hyaena Gallery, Burbank, CA. Seduction (Seattle Erotic Festival), group show. Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. The Resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse, group show. Collaboration with artist Justin Crabtree. Art Works, Richmond, VA. The Coaster Show, group show. La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA. Celestial, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, Mascoutah, IL. Interiors, group show featuring the Copycat Violence collective. Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2014 Children of Roscharch, group Show. Phone Booth Gallery, Long Beach, CA. Irrelevant Roots, a Copycat Violence Collective show. Thumbprint Gallery, La Jolla, CA. Temple of The Soul – Bodies and Sacred Systems, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO. The Bees Knees, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Hidden Kingdoms, group show. The Dream Factory, Frankfurt, Germany. 100 Postcards for Human Rights, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Mass Culture 1920’s, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 2013 The Re-Callibration of Light and Dark, group show. Red Raven Gallery, Port Townsend, WA. Engage Live, a Hope for Creativity group show. Massachussets State House, MA. Mythologique Paintings and drawings by Patricia Ariel and New Icons by R. O’Donnell. Red Raven Gallery, Port Townsend, WA. Tarts, Trollops and Tramps, group show. Tasty Gallery, Seattle. 2012 Mythologique, featured artist. Habitude Spa & Gallery, Seattle, WA. Venusian Odyssey, group show. Vertigo Rising Gallery, Everett, WA. Inner Self-Portrait, group show. Cush Salon & Cafe, Beverly Hills, CA. Girls Gone Wild, group show. Tasty Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2011 The Forgotten Goddess, group show. Rico Adair Gallery, Noho, CA. Bherd Studios Gallery group show. Gene Juarez Salon & Spa, Seattle, WA. Rock the Terminal, group show. Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA. Inscape Open Studios. Inscape Arts, Seattle, WA. Hope For Creativity, group show. Gaga Gallery, Swampscott, MA. White Center Art Walk, Live Painting Extravaganza. Seattle, WA. Raw Artists Showcase – Illuminare. IMusic, Seattle, WA. 2010 Hope For Creativity, group show. Gaga Gallery, Swampscott, MA. Energy Art Movement Salon, group show. Gallery Sixty Six, Memphis, TN. Masquerade, juried show. Gallery 101, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

BA Art Education/Art History. Rio de Janeiro State University.