Gold Leaves Painting

Mari Amman (b. 1984) is an artist working with the secular and sacred. Her first public exhibition in 1999 was a land art sculpture. She works with images, installations, poetry, performance, painting, sculpture, video, textiles and design. Geological Empathy and Sublime Rheology became concepts underscoring her interest in the influence of the imaginary realm in social and physical realities. An EIT Culture & Creativity Expert Evaluator, Amman collaborates with biology, technological and geological scientists, music, architecture, and culture professionals. Her interest in the quixotic and understanding through arts arose from being raised near the Agonic line, surrounded by forest, prairie preserves, a nuclear power plant, and industrial agriculture. Autoethnographic ancestry with her paternal heritage to political activist Ellen Ammann, landscape artist Harriet Sundström, and maternal Italian heritage deepened her commitment to bringing beauty, harmony, and reflective cultural work through geopolitical and technological transitions. Her foundational training in music and dance, underscores her artistic research involving geology, resonances, orology, dream study, social psychology, philosophy, temporality, beauty, memory, somatics and parietal perception. Omniscient, monolithic image and text, was awarded 1st by the jury in the Imaging New Eurasia exhibition, in Gwangju (SK, 2015). Afjordance screened during AWMAS (UCSB, 2020). She was poet and artist-in-residence in Paris (FR, 2023), Bonny Doon (US, 2022), Kjerringøy Land Art (NO, 2020) guiding forest bathing and presenting Sublime Timescapes. Art Farm Iowa (US, 2023),  Arte Expuesto (MX, 2023), Stefan Simchowitz (US, 2020) exposed and collected her work. She researched trauma psychological and developed a practical method at Angelot-Trélex (CH, 2019), and participated in PraksisOslo, Praxisdansfestivalen, a Butoh residency with Mushimaru Fujieda at KHiO (NO, 2017, 2018). She holds a Master of Fine Art (honors) with Frankfurt School Theory/Conceptual Studio Practice from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California (2015), and Bachelor of Fine Art (Dean's List) in Advertising/Interior Design from Illinois Institute of Art (2006), Photography and History of Photography at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Social Psychology at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan (2012). Forthcoming works are iterations of Trânsito, Suspended Planes at TEKS, Gong Teppe, Igloo.