Mariannah Amster

Work: "Wavelength: A Show of Media Art"
When: Opening reception 5-9 pm Wednesday, March 17, 2004, through March 29, 2004
Where: HCC Art Gallery

Work: "Edges"
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Mariannah Amster's first serious study of painting began at the High School of Music and Art in New York City in the early 60s. She graduated from Smith College with a combined degree in art, writing, and biology.

Her work has been included in two traveling exhibits, The Montana Women's Centennial Art Survey Exhibition and the slide presentation Women's Art/Women's Issues, and has shown in various galleries and exhibit spaces on the East Coast and Western United States.

Over the last five years she has focused on computer animation and video as a form of painting. Her most recent piece, Giving Burst, was included in the currents exhibit which premiered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the summer of 2002.

Mariannah¹s fascination with the internal and microscopic universes has developed into a new language where "reminiscent form and abstract narrative" carry her and her viewer into an unidentifiable but familiar landscape.

From the Artist:

"Video is an extension of my work as a painter and book artist, and like my earlier work, uses 'reminiscent form' and 'abstract narrative' to explore the internal landscape and the mysterious, visceral relationship between meaning and understanding."

"My study of painting began at the High School of Music and Art in New York City in the early 60s, and continued at Smith College with a combined degree in art, writing and biology. My painting and hand made books have been exhibited across the US and have been included in two traveling art survey exhibits, The Montana Women¹s Centennial Art Survey Exhibition (1985) and the slide presentation, Women¹s Art/Women¹s Issues (1987)."

"I began working with video in the 1990s. This new work was introduced to Santa Fe in the summer of 2001 with a one woman, painting and video exhibit at Box Gallery, Santa Fe."

"Since then the work has evolved into marriage of ³animation² and video and has been presented: in the IPI: new media exhibition at the College of Santa Fe (2001); as part of The HCC/Ybor City Festival of the Moving Image (Tampa, Florida 2003); Currents 2002 and Currents 2003; and as a solo installation at Klaudia Marr Gallery¹s Shack Obscura."

"My partner, Frank Ragano, and I are co-directors of Parallel Studios, a production company seeking to foster the work of new media artists."