Ariel Oakley is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California whose paintings explore the boundaries of self and non-self, external and internal, life and generative decay. Her images combine medieval fresco, anatomical references, and are informed by her job as a nurse in surgery at Keck Hospital of USC.

In this chat, Ariel talks about her experience as a surgical nurse and how that inspires her painting practice, what draws her to medieval fresco techniques, and the idea of shared breath that inspired her MEP visual artwork.

To learn more about Ariel’s mail art and accompanying film by Ian Power and Clint McCallum, go here.

RETURN TO ARTIST CHAT ARCHIVES

Show Notes

• See Ariel's postcard art

• Learn more about Ariel Oakley

• Read Notes on Complexity by Neil Theise

• Learn about Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros

• See Ariel's recent work and Breath of Devotion triptych

• Maryland Institute College of Art Low-Residency MFA

• Learn about the Middle Ear Project library program

• See the trailer for the film paired with Ariel's mail art