Sali Ariel

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Sali Ariel

Sali Ariel was born in 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA and was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
She had a background of breeding, training and showing horses, which has remained a life-long
passion. In 1965, she won an art scholarship to Washington University, St. Louis. She has lived in
Israel since 1972. After years of living and working in Jerusalem,, in 1993, she moved to Tel Aviv
where she set up a professional studio. She showed her work in a series of exhibitions (which dealt
mostly with women's empowerment and identity issues). In 2001, struck by the transformation of
Tel Aviv from a Mediterranean city of white buildings into a city of towers, she began work on a
special project to capture and document this time of change. The juxtaposition and blend of
greenery, the ornate buildings of South Tel Aviv, the white, box-like Bauhaus buildings of
Rothschild and North Tel Aviv, and the skyscrapers that are now rising high above the
Tel Aviv streets define a special transition in the history of Israel's metropolis by the sea. Her
oil paintings of the streets of Tel Aviv capture the essence of the city with its Bauhaus architecture,
dogs, motor scooters and bustling cafes. Ariel is the wife of “Drybones” cartoonist Ya'akov Kirschen.