Artist Statement
Images are forms of virtual, projected, embodied material woven with time.
Process Statement
Contact: mariammanart@icloud.com
Member: Norske Billedkunstnere, BONO, LHSA
Representation: Albumen Gallery, London; CollectiveOslo, Norway
Clients: Norway House Foundation, BBC, Getty, Nordre Aker Bydel, Smelteverket, Ekebergparken, Boffi Studio, Open House Oslo, 22nd Century Media, Outdoor Illinois, Jesse Bornstein Architecture
Mari Amman (b. 1984, Dixon, Illinois) is a Nordic-American international artist. Interested in resonances, she works with the sublime to create reverence for beauty. Her inquiry into the ways places make people invite viewers' to consider relationships with notions of nature and the sacred. Her work with afferent beauty, somatics, technology informed method making and engages the Parietal aspects of perception through public art, performances, installations, images (photography, video), textiles, and sculptures. Her aesthetic and material choices are guided by a desire to reveal resplendence in life. Her innovative approach to working with afferent beauty informed method making in Virtual Material, Sublime Timescapes, ÆSETHETIC RESONANCES, Pattern Recognition, Visual Literacy, and Body Architecture. Her award-winning work is held in private and public collections, including monolithic image and text, Omniscient, awarded 1st in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition in Gwangju (SK, 2015) and Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023). She was poet and artist in residence in Paris (FR, 2023), Kjerringøy Land Art (NO, 2020), Angelot-Trélex (CH, 2019), Praksis Oslo (NO, 2017), Praxisdansfestivalen (NO, 2017). Degreed and studied with honours: MFA (2015), BA (2006), History, Interior Design, Butoh, Photography, and Social Psychology in Illinois, Japan, and Norway. She maintains memberships with Norsk Billedkunstneres, BONO, and LHSA
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