Arel Lisette is a visual artist working with charcoal and pastel to create drawings on paper. Drawing through erasure, her works uncover and reflect on the nuances and darker undercurrents of the American identities and narratives held within roadside signs, symbols, and imagery across the United States. Arel earned her MFA from Columbia University, is a graduate of the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, and received her BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Her work has been exhibited at the Print Center New York, NY; Kishka Gallery & Library, White River Junction, VT; Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Deli Gallery, New York, NY; Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY; and Casa Santa Ana, Panama City, Panama, among others. She is a two-time recipient of both the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and Columbia University’s Dean’s Travel Grant, and has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Alex Brown Foundation, the Macedonia Institute, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Arel currently lives and works in New York City.
