Her collages encompass light hearted, colorful imagery in a whimsical world. Inspired by Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein and other children’s authors and illustrators.
At a young age Ariel developed a fondness for painting, printmaking and photography. Building her first darkroom at twelve years old while using her late father’s Nikon F, she took photographs wherever she went. At eighteen, she moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts. There she became enraptured with small camera, street-like photography. After two years of focusing on this style, she moved back to her hometown of Boston to attend the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she was mentored by some of the masters of the view camera and was given the opportunity to work with the Polaroid 20×24 camera. She graduated with her BFA in 2010. She has studied advanced photographic alternative processes in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Savannah, Georgia.
Ariel Kessler has exhibited her work all over the United States, and internationally in Mexico and Japan.
Her work can be found in public, and private collections throughout the world.
Ariel lives in Watertown, MA with her dog and muse Georgia.
