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

BIO:

Ariel Dill was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1976, where she lives and works. She earned her BA from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1998 and her MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY, in 2006.

Dill has mounted recent solo exhibitions at LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2016); and Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2012). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2022); The Brand Library, Glendale, CA (2022); LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, CA (2022, 2021, 2020); CCA Oakland Campus, Oakland, CA (2019), Cuevas Tillard Projects, New York, NY (2016); Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY (2015); Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (2015); and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2015).

She was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellow in 2015, and her work has been mentioned in periodicals such as LA Downtown News, Modern Painters, Time Out New York, ArtCritical.com, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, artslant.com, Random House, The New York Sun, LA Weekly, and New American Paintings.