l grew up in Miami, Florida and moved to New York City in 2002. She graduated from NYU in May of 2006 with a double major in Studio Art and Creative Writing.   She is particularly interested in the apocalypse (an environmental one and not a biblical one), ghosts, and ancient Jewish cemetaries.  She is currently searching for some less morbid interests.  So far, the frontrunners are bagels and cream cheese and cheesy old school musicals.  She has lived in Greece for a short period of time, and subsequently began collecting and painting icons.  Some of her other artwork and writing deal with themes of gender and sexuality, aging, and cultural identity.

Her time in Spartanburg was spent roaming neighborhoods and exploring abandoned Southern landscapes.  With a new found affinity for the camera phone, Arielle documented her derives (long meandering walks to nowhere in particular) which inspired a series of 50 small glass paintings that often reflect isolation and poverty.  During her art and performance piece "We Live Here Now" she and fellow resident, Rachel Harkai, moved themselves and their belongings into 3 empty storefront windows where they lived for 5 days and 4 nights as a way to attract people downtown.  In the spring she worked closely with Spartanburg's College Town to build the HUB-BUB College Street Team as a way of encouraging college students to come downtown, to work together on College Town projects, and to get involved in cultural happenings.  Arielle left Spartanburg to visit New York and will tavel to Israel in the summer of 2008.       

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