Ten Paintings

by Ariel Schleicher

Ariel Schleicher is a painter exploring the ubiquity of classical posture and styling tropes in the beauty of today’s human form. She finds solace in antiquity, merging classic forms with bold color and dimension to create hypnotic, striking portraits of ordinary people. Roland Barthes considered the photograph as the manifestation of one, singular instant repeating for eternity, and Schleicher’s work aims to capture moments in memory, in dreamy, exaggerated, rich oil paintings.

Schleicher works primarily in oil and has trained at institutions all over the world, including the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, the New York School of the Arts, and more. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions from the Luna Grande Gallery in Istanbul to the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Massachusetts. Her work has also been published in online publications such as 3 Elements Review, Quaranzine, and Visceral8. She is featured in the Women Who Draw’s online artist directory.