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A New York-by-way-of-Palouse artist will be featured in a show and reception at the Bank Left Gallery in Palouse April 13.
Ariel Zakarison, a graduate of Pullman High School, grew up on her father and grandfather’s farm south of Palouse and is now a graduate student at Hunter College in Manhattan.
She will show 13 pieces at the Bank Left, including paintings, prints and a lithograph. Some of the work on display will be abstract landscapes from Zakarison’s memories of Whitman County.
She has lived in New York for the past four years.
In 2009, while finishing a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Western Washington University, Zakarison went to visit her sister Shannon, a musician in New York.
“I’d never had any interest in living there,” Ariel said. “It just didn’t ever seem like a place I would ever be happy in. I grew up in Washington and wanting to stay in Seattle or Portland.”
But being in the city for four days and talking to other studio artists there changed her mind.
Now Ariel and Shannon share an apartment in Greenpoint, a section of Brooklyn. Shannon was featured in the Gazette in a 2011 article about the truck drivers of harvest.
“Our parents were always interested in art and music and my uncle is an art collector,” said Ariel. “Everybody’s very excited about what we’re doing.”
For her show, Ariel has shipped six paintings here and will arrive back on the Palouse with more.
In December, Zakarison is slated to graduate with a master’s degree in fine art, studio arts, with a concentration in painting and printmaking.
The Hunter College studio building is just off of Times Square.
To support herself during her time in New York, Ariel worked an internship for artist Dennis McNett for three years and is a freelance printmaker and screenprinter for bands and other exhibitors. She also works as a waitress.
The opening artist’s reception for Zakarison’s show at Bank Left will be April 13 from noon to 3 p.m.
In celebration of WSU Mom’s weekend, the Bank Left Bistro will feature a luncheon and chocolate tasting from noon to 2 p.m., and then a dinner and chocolate tasting from 5:30 to 8 p.m. with live music by local musicians Thompson and Clark.
The gallery and bistro will be open on Sunday, April 14, and continue its chocolate tasting with lunch from noon to 2 p.m.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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