Ariana Vaeth
Born in Baltimore, MD
Lives & works in Milwaukee, WI
Artist Statement
Focused on personal narrative, my work honors interactions with the people that instruct my character. Portraying my closest friends and myself, I celebrate the generous closeness allowed by those I am privileged to know. Preparatory photoshoots capture gesture and expression used as source material. My self-inclusion in the paintings restrict my agency; I can never fully be director or actor at once when producing a composition. The loss of control is traded for serendipity found in trusted exchanges among friendships. Composing subjects, furniture, and props, my autobiographical paintings chronicle interrelations rooted in intimacy.
Artist Biography
Ariana Vaeth is a Baltimore raised artist focused on personal narrative. Recent Graduate from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, she fulfilled an exchange program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. While completing domestic exchange, Vaeth continued her interest with the figure and methods of oil painting. Though Vaeth grew up in Baltimore, she comes of age in Milwaukee. Her work revolves around the moments
experienced as she travels into Womanhood.
Enticed by the theatrics of the Baroque to the Modern portrayal of American is the Realist Movement; Vaeth finds stimulation in the melodrama of everyday life. Choosing to work with models she knows personally, she recognizes their gesture and expression as a trusted exchange.
Education
2017 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee WI.
Major: Integrated Studio Arts
Minor: Art History
2016 Domestic Exchange at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD.
Recognition:
2018 Fellowship.art inaugural recipient, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship: Emerging Artist, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 MIAD New Studio Practice Artist in Resident, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Pfister Hotel’s Artist-in-Residence Finalist, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 ACAID Mobility: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD.
2013 Presidential Scholarship at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI.
2012 Full scholarship attendance to Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO.
Exhibitions
2018 The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee WI.
2018 Catalina Bellizzi, Shenequa Brooks, and Ariana Vaeth, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2018 Body of Work, Traveling Exhibition, Milwaukee WI and Grand Rapids, MI
2018 30 X 30 X 30 exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2017 31 Emerge, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI.
2017 Gift, Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI.
2017 Figure Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2017 Ordinary Moments: Ariana Vaeth and Caitlyn Dorn, MOWA owned gallery at St John's on the Lake, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 20th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2017 Flowers in the Attic: Vaeth and Jimenez, the Yellow Wallpaper Project, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Figure Now, the Portrait Society, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Come and Get it While it’s Hot, Hudson Business Lounge, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 National Bohemian - Solo Show, Gallery M at the Intercontinental Hotel, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 MIAD Juried Senior Thesis, MIAD East Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Grilled Cheese Grant Finalist Exhibition, After School Special, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Pfister Hotel’s AiR Finalist Exhibition, Gallery M at the InterContinental, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 I AM MKE, Alphabang! Art Space, Milwaukee, WI.
2017 Riverwest FemFest, Groovy Dog, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Figure Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2016 Bromide, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD.
2016 We Make It All To Have It All, La Bodega Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2016 GHOOST SHOW VII, BORDERLINE, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Riverwest Art Walk: Featured Artist, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Launch Party, MIAD East Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Figure Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee WI.
2016 GHOOST SHOW VII, BORDERLINE, Milwaukee, WI.
2015 GHOOST SHOW VI, BORDERLINE, Milwaukee, WI.
2015 DIY: The Exhibition, Borgward Collective, Milwaukee, WI.