Artist Statement
Painting is where I am most fully myself: raw, direct, without constraint. It is also a form of love. Painting someone feels like a way of knowing them more deeply, an act of intimate connection when separation makes closeness impossible.
I paint women who exist beyond me, free to be themselves. They can be enticing and dangerous, studious and conspiratorial. They exist alone and together, each distinct, each fully herself in the presence of others. They carry the exhaustion of doing too much, while holding the thought that none of it will matter, and yet persist.
Through art, I confront the conflicts I carry: between injustice and resistance, intimacy and loss, exhaustion and meaning, distance and vicinity, empathy and apathy, art and science.
With my work, I am honest about grief, rage, and absurdity. With lightness.
Thank you for being here. 💙
Artist Bio
Ariadna (she/her/hers) is an artist based in Northern California, working primarily in oil painting. She is currently pursuing a post-baccalaureate certificate in Visual Arts through UC Berkeley Extension.
Her work moves between the personal and the political, from portraiture as an act of love and memory to figurative painting that engages with injustice, rage, gender, and the quiet exhaustion of living. Her current focus is the Queens series, an ongoing body of work exploring female authenticity, solidarity, and the seductive face of a corrupt world.
She is also a scientist, which matters to her art.
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