At Corners Gallery,we strive to better the community by supporting other local organizations and events such as AIDS Ride for Life, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Cayuga Heights PTA, Community Arts Partnership, Finger Lakes Land Trust, Finger Lakes Running Club, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca Fine Arts Boosters, Ithaca League of Women Rollers, Ithaca Murals, Ithaca Triathlon Club, the Learning Web, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Southside Community Center, SPCA, Women Swimmin’ for Hospicare and many others.

About the owner:

Ariel Bullion Ecklund earned a B.F.A. in Art Photography and a M.A. in Museum Studies. Following her training, Ariel gained valuable experience working in book and paper conservation, as a freelance photographer and with a wide range of collections in numerous museums. Ariel is indebted to her mother, Brenda Bullion, a single mother, an artist and a scholar, who first sparked her interest and appreciation in art, architecture and design.

In 2009, she purchased a gallery and framing studio and has since curated and mounted over 100 physical exhibitions during her 17-year career as a gallerist at Corners Gallery, in Ithaca, NY. In 2025, Ariel partnered with TDB Architecture to aid in the curation and management of their new multipurpose educational gallery + showroom space at Trade Design Build.

Ariel is also a multidisciplinary artist. has exhibited her work internationally and nationally in a multitude of galleries and museums and her work can be found in many private collections. Ariel has been the recipient of numerous awards in juried exhibitions and was the recipient of a Kodak Merit Scholarship. In 2021, she was awarded the Cayuga Arts Collective Paddle Grant, to aid in her ongoing ceramic education. 

In 2023, she was a co-juror for the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Summer Residency Program (for photography/video) and was a guest artist in the Finger Lakes Pottery Tour.

In 2024, Ariel presented a solo exhibition at Hawk + Hive in Andes, NY, and in January, 2025, she exhibited ceramic lighting at The Interior Design Show in Toronto, Canada.

In 2025, Ariel’s work traveled to Basel, Switzerland at the VOLTA Basel Art Fair during Art Basel Week, presented by Normal Royal Gallery. Ariel also exhibited during Upstate Art Weekend at The Catskills Barn, a group exhibition of 16 artists and designers curated by artist Jeff Quinn. In August, she was an Artist In Residence at the Two Coats of Paint Residency hosted by painter and writer Sharon Butler in Queens, NY. In November, Ariel was invited to speak and create a commissioned work with Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY.

Ariel’s work has been published in Ceramics Now, ELLE Canada and The World of Interiors.

In 2026, Ariel is scheduled to curate, design and exhibit at various sites in New York, New Jersey and Toronto.

Ariel’s artistic influences include Sally Mann, Louise Nevelson, Lenore Tawney, Agnes Martin, Maria Lai, Todd Hido, Isamu Noguchi and Richard Serra. She also finds inspiration in architecture, maps and images of galaxies in outer space.

Ariel’s work can be viewed on her website www.arielecklund.com or Instagram @ariel_bullion_ecklund.

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The official back story:

In 2010, Ariel Bullion Ecklund purchased Corners Gallery from her previous employers. With much hard work and determination, it took Ariel six years to pay off the loan. Since then, the business has gone through major physical transformation- with the renovation of the existing location in 2014, as well as the addition of a large exhibition space and small gift shop. In February 2026, Ariel celebrated the curation and presentation of the 107th exhibition at Corners Gallery!

Corners Gallery is a vital resource for artists and art lovers in Ithaca and the surrounding region.

We hope to see you soon!