Ari's Upcoming Shows: Home & Pretty in Pink

Home @ The Drawing Room SF

I’ll have 2 images from my series 18 Rue Dugommier in this group show.

The Drawing Room presents HOME at 599 Valencia Street, a new temporary Annex space and pilot project. This show addresses a multitude of issues including the social and physical constructs of housing, immigration, identity and the histories of urban and land development.

Pretty In Pink @ Gray Loft Gallery

I will have one image in the Pretty In Pink exhibition at Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland. As part of my 6 Feet Apart series, I have a new exploration that takes these images of sidewalk COVID marks and transforms them into unique objects. I call these Artifacts: they are prints of my images that were placed on the sidewalk outdoors for a month or two during my exhibition last March. The images became faded, scratched, stained, and torn. Now they are framed: protecting and commemorating the time they represent. They were taken from the sidewalk, put back on the sidewalk and then taken again — making a full circle. They stand as a metaphor for the pandemic and how it has changed us.