Ariel lockshaw

ARTIST STATEMENT: The contemporary landscape is an integral point of investigation in my work. Largely, the way political and economic shifts inform the way we use the landscape. Natural disasters, droughts, sources of water, metropolises, industry, policy, crisis and community are deciding factors in how we use and change our contemporary landscape. None of these changes go without consequence but most are seemingly necessary in the moment. My intent is to highlight the necessity and the consequences within the landscapes by way of painted materials. It is important that the materials I use lend to the conceptual idea of destruction/construction and the possible toxicity of the environments I represent.

b. Orange County, CA 1991
r. Athens, GA 2014 - Present

Education:
MFA, Drawing and Painting, University of Georgia, 2017
BFA, Painting, Sonoma State University 2014

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Between Here and There, dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2016 Emerges IX, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2016 Lyndon House 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA, Juror: Jock Reynolds, Yale Art Gallery Director

2015 HELP-HOPE-NEPAL, Spectrum Art Fair, Miami, FL
2015 Making Masters, Madison Museum of Fine Art, Madison, GA
2015 WonderRoot CSA Season 05, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 Southern Hospitality, Virginia Commonwealth University MFA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2014 Sonoma State University BFA Show, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2014 Made in California, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2014 Red Dot Emerging Artists Exhibition, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
2014 Juried Student Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2014 Decision Driven, Sonoma State University Library Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA

2013 Out of the Box, Sonoma State University Library Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2013 CW Gallery presents Ladies Night, CW Gallery, Petaluma, CA

2012 Seated: Collected Depictions of Chairs, CW Gallery, Petaluma, CA
2012 Water Works, Person Theatre Lobby, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

Awards:
2016 Merit Award, 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Athens, GA, Juror: Jock Reynolds, Yale Art Gallery Director
2014 1st Place Prize, Made in California Juried Exhibition, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

Bibliography/Publications:
2016 101 Contemporary Artists, ArtVoices Art Books
2015 ArtVoices Magazine, Fall Issue #42, Cover Feature
2015 New American Paintings, MFA Annual, Issue #117
2012-13 Zaum: Sonoma State University Literary Magazine, 17th edition.

Public Collectors:

Raleigh Studios, Atlanta, GA
Two Thirty-Five Hotel, Healdsburg, CA