Mariel knows how to make people laugh. Her work finds the surreal and silly in the commonplace and everyday. With undiluted delight she explores the idiosyncratic absurdities of our human existence. She can be found dancing with salty dogs at a crusty honky tonk and sipping armagnac in Paris at Le Meurice - a mishmash of highbrow and lowbrow and none of that doldrum drudgery in between. Much of this can be attributed to a background in the stranger sides of Performance and Fine Art - not to mention the general fun and funk that comes with running around Berkeley and San Francisco as wild young thing. She currently lives in bright and blurry Hollywood, CA.