Ari Glass unveils golden vision of South Seattle at Pacific Tower

“When it comes to creating a better world I feel like artists are the ones that are going to be in the forefront,” said painter Ari Glass as sun streamed in through the bay windows of Compadre Café on the first level of Artspace Mt. Baker Lofts.

Glass — blinged out in prayer beads and a tiny golden Buddha in a clear teardrop-shaped bead that hung from his neck — greeted me with a hug, though we had never met. I was there to learn more about the new paintings he’ll be unveiling at the Pacific Towers on Thursday, but our conversation quickly veered towards deeper waters.

“A lot of my first show was about migrations,” said Glass. “How did people get to different parts of the world? What’s the unity behind it all? That’s what I’m searching to find behind the artwork, behind the creative process.”... Read more

Ari Glass on Optimism and Alienation

At the Gallery of Events, today at 7 pm, Ari Glass will open his latest exhibition titled "Beyond the Mental Picture". Glass' new collection of paintings is a continuation of the artist's earlier project where he questions his own identity through fragments of memory by autobiographical discourse. Each of Ari Glass’ paintings looks as a seemingly unrelated sequence from the painter’s life and a reflection of certain emotions, but behind each experience lies the entire amalgam of various thoughts, feelings, and ideas that tie all the pieces.

Artist Ari Glass on Subversion of Capitalism

On Friday, June 30, at the Peter Lik Soho Gallery in New York City, multimedia artist Ari Glass presented his latest exhibition under the name ‘Zoo Politics’. The exhibition deals with the identity of a man as a political creature, that initially at the time of Aristotle meant something different than what it means today at the time of consumerism. At the opening, Glass also did a performance of ‘O Zoo Politics’.