Ariel Cooper lives and works in Oakland, CA; the unceded homelands of the Ohlone people. Her home is in the Fruitvale neighborhood along the Sausal Creek Watershed that drains into the San Francisco Bay. Ariel is a multidisciplinary artist working through visual storytelling as well as social/ecological/material experiments. In her work she connects personal shatterings and mendings to collective and historical events and processes. This manifests as experimental narrative comic books and tapestries populated by animal and spiritual critters, haunting visitations, landscapes, psychological domestic interiors and playful expressions of nonlinear time. As well as through experiments in urban land based art projects like the Speculative Commoning Artist Collaborative, all of which seek to work in opposition to the alienation processes inherent in the capitalist project.
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