Jan Aiello grew up in South Carolina and lived in the DC area for 20 years. After 14 years of teaching art she devoted herself to making art full time.  In 2017, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she worked and exhibited for 8 years. She recently located back to Arlington, Virginia with her family. Jan works as a full-time artist in mixed media and painting in at Studios@307 in Falls Church, VA.

The natural world offers us cues to the experience of being human.  Flora and fauna mirror the life cycle of the human body and consciousness. Through movement, pattern, pause, disruption, or organisms we can’t always see, we connect the environment to our inner selves and our spirituality and the interdependent whole.

Artists Hilma of Klimt, Luchita Hurtado, Kiki Smith, and Louise Bourgeoise are some of the artists who inspire me to make a  connection between nature and what it means to be human. My experience as a mother and Breast Cancer survivor calls me to delicate forms in nature and how like us, they gather, suffer, thrive, and regenerate.

 

CV

  • 2018 Stanford, Painting continued education

    2002- 2005 Corcoran, GW, sculpture and drawing, continued education

    2002-2010 Torpedo factory, continued education

    1997 M.A. Painting, Greenville, SC

    1995 B.S. Studio Art and Education, Greenville SC

  • 2024 Metamorphosis, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

    2023 Annual Bay Area Artist's Choice, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, Devon Bella Kadist, San Francisco, CA

    2023 Close Up San Francisco Women Artists,  San Francisco, *Juror’s Choice

    2018-2022 Fuse Presents, Quarterly Art Exhibits, San Jose, CA

    2021 New Work, JCO Art Haus, Los Gatos, CA

    2006 Mental Health and Art Journal, *Juror’s Choice

    2006 Cheverly Maryland Artists Presents, Cheverly, Maryland

  • 2025 Corporate commission, Wells Fargo Building, San Francisco, CA, 3 panel installation and Painting

    2005-2019 private

    2017-2025 Citadel Art Studios, San Jose, Fuse Artists collaborative gallery

  • 2008-2017 Art Educator and Curriculum Creator: Rivendell School, Arlington, VA

    1999-2002 Graphic Designer, Washington Chamber Symphony, Washington, DC

    1999-2010 Torpedo Factory Member, Ceramics, Alexandria, VA

    1997-1999 Secondary School Art Curriculum and Art Education Director, Fairfax Academy, Fairfax, VA