Arel Lisette (b. Riverside, California) 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 business, political, and religious signs across the United States. She received her BFA in Fine Art from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, is a graduate of the Professional Printer Training Program at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, and is currently earning her MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited in the New Prints Program 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 grant recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 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.