The Domino Series is a series of 70 + paintings made gouache on handmade gouache on handmade Indian paper.
I started working on the “Domino Series” about fifteen years ago. This is an ongoing project that I carry out in parallel with other projects.
The series stems from two different interests of mine, namely Geometry and Ornamentation, which is not an uncommon crossroad.
Since 1993, based on Sacred Geometry, I have used as a point of departure the single geometric matrix called the “Vesica Piscis” or The Vessel of the Fish, which could be described as the overlapping of two circles, creating an almond shape in between the Mandorla.
Acting like a seed, this single module helps me generate a lattice based on the circle, allowing me to create the most varied patterns in my paintings. It is essential to notice that my lattice is based on the circle, not the square, as most Modernist artists have used.

Article By Sabrina Bernhard,
The Geometry of Passion, Arielle Masson’s Artistic Journey.
ArtHouston Magazine issue#19 - pages 48-51
Published on Sep 10, 2024

Susan Chadwick reviews a solo exhibition of works by Arielle Masson at the Glassell School of Art - Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Arielle Masson’s Chaotic Nodes
by Susan Chadwick October 2, 2024
in Glasstire Magazine online

“Arielle Masson: Chaotic Nodes” at the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art (August 10–October 6)
The MFAH begins a new series of exhibitions at the Glassell which will celebrate the work of the school’s faculty.

One Solo Exhibition
At Monterroso Gallery, Houston, Texas
October 9 to November 2021
Artist Talk: October 30, 2021 - 12.30pm

The nine artists included in the exhibition Houston Artists: Gestural and Geometric Abstraction have been committed to abstract painting and sculpture for many decades.For this exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art collaborated with Houston Baptist University Art Gallery in Houston, Texas, to create an “exchange” program of contemporary art exhibitions featuring the work of artists from their respective states, presented concurrently at each venue

Arielle Masson expondrá
Crónicas de la Tierra en el MAX
En la sala de exposiciones temporales del Museo de Antropología de Xalapa (MAX) se exhibirá a partir de este viernes 28 de junio, a las 20:00 horas, la muestra plástica Crónicas de la Tierra, de Arielle Masson.
Largos pliegos de papel pintados con acrílico y piezas al gouache y al temple al huevo, colmarán la sala de geometrías futuristas y utópicas que cuestionan el lugar del ser humano en la geografía que conocemos.
El crítico y curador Surpik Angelini, en el texto que presenta esta obra, dice: “Es fácil entender que en nuestra era espacial todos nos hemos convertido en pasajeros virtuales de las naves que exploran la profundidad infinita del universo, pues ellas son verdaderas extensiones de nuestros sentidos.

This is the English version of the Catalogue “Crónicas de la Tierra” of the Solo Exhibition I had at the Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico in July 2013. You can preview the entire catalogue online. Essay by Curator Surpik Angelini from Transart Foundation.

Crónicas de la Tierra is a catalogue of Arielle Masson's Paintings with 36 color reproductions and an essay by curator Surpik Angelini. It has been prepared in conjunction with her one person exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, June 28 to August 4, 2013.The essay is in Spanish.
Crónicas de la Tierra es un catalogo de las Pinturas de Arielle Masson. Contiene 36 reproducciones a color y un ensayo por la curadora Surpik Angelini. Acompaña la exposición individual de la artista en la sala de temporales del Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Veracruz, México, del 28 de Junio al 4 de Agosto 2013.

- Oye Veracruz- 2013-06-28
Crónicas de la Tierra
La Artista Arielle Masson platica sobre su reciente exposición en el MAX por Myrna Tenorio Pérez

Diario de Xalapa, 28 de Junio del 2013.
Exhibe Arielle Masson sus Crónicas de la Tierra. Redacción/Diario de Xalapa.

Arielle Masson expondrá Crónicas de la Tierra en el MAX.
Publicado el 27. jun, 2013 - Proyecto Veracruz

Artist profile, with Bio, Statement, and Portfolio on line.

The CruzDiez Foundation presents its Pedagogical Project,“The Doors of Perception”, the first seminar that stems
from the wishes, concepts and intellectual legacy of Carlos Cruz-Diez.
The objective of this seminar, initiated by Arielle Masson – Instructor of the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston– is to stimulate the students into an artistic inquiry and new modes of artistic practices.
They are asked to elaborate and construct “a Labyrinth of Deconditioning”, after an unrealized project by Carlos Cruz-Diez.
A documentary of the entire process was realized at the end of the semester that retraced not only the concepts, but the aspirations of the students as well as the visuals produced in the seminar.Excerpts of Carlos Cruz-Diez Master Class are also featured.

Visual Art Alliance of Houston Studio Visit, 2011.

Arts In Transit North Line.
Description of the designs.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO) provides the people of the Houston region with effective and efficient transit services. However, METRORail is more than just a means of travel, it is the thread that ties the communities along its path together - uniting people, cultures and neighborhoods as one.

Take a look at any METRORail station across the region and you’ll quickly discover that it’s more than just a simple structure. You’ll witness art imitating life on or near each and every one of our platforms. Watch as a lifeless transit structure becomes a dynamic part of the community it serves.

Art is about expression, and transit is about mobility. Thanks to your support, the METRO Arts in Transit program has truly taken something as fundamental as a train platform, and transformed them into literal works of art.

"Arcadia" - The City of Houston Art Collection -
Partition Wall in the main lobby of the Healthcare Center - 2008.
81 linear feet of country stone clad pocket wall.
Inserted with 27 Laminated glass panels with original and unique design.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO) provides the people of the Houston region with effective and efficient transit services. However, METRORail is more than just a means of travel, it is the thread that ties the communities along its path together - uniting people, cultures and neighborhoods as one.

Take a look at any METRORail station across the region and you’ll quickly discover that it’s more than just a simple structure. You’ll witness art imitating life on or near each and every one of our platforms. Watch as a lifeless transit structure becomes a dynamic part of the community it serves.

Art is about expression, and transit is about mobility. Thanks to your support, the METRO Arts in Transit program has truly taken something as fundamental as a train platform, and transformed them into literal works of art.

“Nature is represented not in its appearance, but in its mode of operation”
– Arielle Masson
In many ways, the work by contemporary painter Arielle Masson hinges on the fertile ground of intersection. Her multi-layered paintings investigate the collisions between geometry and nature; surface and substrate; phenomena and noumena. Yet for Masson, these relationships are characterized not by contrast, but by the connections they form.
With dual Mexican and French heritage, Masson was raised with an amalgamation of cultural identities that informed her perspective on humanity as a whole—namely the idea that there are certain impulses that exist independently of culture, society or geography. Finding commonality in humankind’s ubiquitous fascination with color, pattern and ornamentation, Masson’s work now uses those outlets to investigate deeper bonds that not only connect people across space and time, but that connect everything in existence.
As such, Masson’s work explores a cosmological model of the universe wherein all things are aligned by a shared multiplicity of form and frequency. Upon first glance, the highly intricate geometries in her work recall that of architectural structures and ornamentation—qualities attributed to the human impulse to impose order onto nature. However, all of her forms, shapes and patterns are based on a single geometric matrix known as the Vesica Piscis, which is comprised of two overlapping circles that create an almond-shape where they intersect. This matrix serves as a latticework on which she builds her many-layered works to create and endless variety of geometric motifs ranging from simple patterns to highly intricate angular forms. Referencing the cosmological tenet of Pure Vibration, Masson views each of her works as “tangible frequencies” which, despite their infinite variety, are nonetheless all linked by their origin within the Vesica Piscis.
Ultimately, Masson’s work reflects on the invisible, yet omnipresent, geometry that
is the very foundation of nature.

Houston, TX - Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of Chicome-Xochtli’s Children, which is curated by Beth Secor and features the work of Humberto Saenz, Daniel Anguilu, Arielle Masson and Roberto Castillo. The opening reception is March 11, 2011 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. with an artist talk at 7:00 p.m.
Chicome-Xochtli’s Children presents a group exhibition of artists whose innovative works in painting, photography and printmaking explore themes of identity, tradition and social justice through aspects of their own Hispanic heritage. Chicome-Xochtli refers to the Gulf Coast Nahuas’ name for Xochipilli, the Aztec god of agriculture and the arts. (The Nahua were an indigenous people of Mexico, thought to have originated in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, later migrating to the Gulf Coast and Central Mexico). Secor chose the title of the exhibition, as it seemed fitting in that all four artists in this exhibition have cultural connections to Mexico and now live in the Gulf Coast’s largest city, Houston, Texas.

La galerie Boissière+Gomendio a décidé d’organiser une action caritative au profit des enfants malades et en difficulté de la Fondation Paul Parquet, grâce à une vente aux enchères d’œuvres d’art, pour laquelle Maître Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, éminent commissaire priseur, accepte d’officier à titre gracieux.
LA VENTE AUX ENCHÈRES dirigée par Maître PIERRE CORNETTE DE SAINT-CYR
Hôtel Arturo Lopez, salon des coquillages : dimanche 14 avril à 15h (réservation conseillée)
VISITE de l’exposition Samedi 13 avril 2013 de 13h à 19h, entrée libre.

OF GEOMETRY, ORNAMENTATION AND JOURNEYS

Born in Mexico City, growing up in Brussels, completing advanced studies in Paris and more advanced study in Houston, Arielle Masson has been on many journeys. For a few hours on Oct. 4, Arielle will make another journey, this time to Conroe, where she will judge the artwork of, and perhaps glimpse, the artistic journeys of many artists living in the greater Conroe/Houston area. With graduate degrees in both Literature and the Fine Arts, art teaching experience since 1989, the recipient of many prestigious US and French fellowships and grants, participation in nearly 50 art exhibitions in France and the US, including five solo shows, delivering a host of art lectures in Belgium, France and the US, and leading a number of major Houston public art projects (including artistic designs at three light rail stations), Arielle Masson will bring a lot to the judging of area art for this competitive show being hosted by the Conroe Art League.

Magdalen Celestino & Arielle Masson
Bringing the works of Magdalen Celestino together with Arielle Masson’s is in some ways a spirit invoking invitation. Both artists’ works seem to exist in the realm between time and space, that place of sacred geometry found in the cosmic dream world. Yet, despite the ethereal nature that both artists’ works seem to share, there is the knowledge of hard science and theoretical physics backing up their artistic creations.

Masson works with variations on simple geometric forms which develop into matrices, or seen another way, as tantric diagrams. There is also a starfield presence in many of her large-scale white on black paintings.
Thom Andriola - December 1 -2007
New Gallery, Houston, Texas.

As recipients of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County 2003 Artist Fellowship Award, Christopher French and Arielle Masson are featured in a small but effective two person show at Space 125 Gallery. Both artist are abstract painters who repeat geometric patterns...

"Art, Au Naturel"
By Dylan Otto Krider,
2000

Arielle Masson "Polaris - Egg Tempera on board- 24" x 24"