March 7 – April 12, 2026
“Listening to Light” brings together two painting series: one exploring the inner light of being, and the other seeking to touch the living light of the Welsh landscape.
Each work was created while listening to the Gayatri Mantra—considered the mother of all mantras and drawn from the Ṛg Veda, among the oldest written words on earth.
BIO
Airiel is a painter who creates spaces. She finds her home in the power of multiples creating installations. The number of paintings is determined by the content of the intention, such as the 108 paintings in the Gayatri Mantra series.
She says, “I love the idea of being a part of something greater than myself— to create environments that hint at the mystical and can possibly take one beyond our physical senses and selves. I would love for people to come into the installation and experience it with their eyes closed.” Airiel was born in Houston, TX.
After a successful career as an Art Director and Associate Creative Director for several ad agencies, she moved to Berkeley to attend the Arts and Consciousness program at JFKU where she received an MFA in Studio Arts.
Feeling inundated with the objective image permeating the ad world, she chose to create artworks and art installations that were subjective and also experiential in nature. Her desire was and is to create work that can be sensed as well as seen. Her inspiration—the mystery, the mystical, and the unknown.
Airiel’s work has been shown in the Bay Area at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, ProArts Oakland, Alta Bates Community
Gallery, Gallery Route One, and First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, and nationally in Atlanta, Boulder, Santa Fe, and Houston.
Airiel now paints and art directs in the San Francisco Bay Area.