About
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
– Buckminster Fuller
Ami Maria Muranetz was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied at Camosun College in a two-year visual arts program combining theory with technical studies in ceramics, painting, drawing, graphic design, performance, critique, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and film.
The distinct spiritual eclecticism found within her painting, photography, and sculpture is notable in the fusion of new world iconography with old world religious symbols. Her ultimate goal is to use art as a tool to transcend historical and cultural differences. Opening up a space for collective culture through her work, she encourages others to reexamine their identities in relationship to their surroundings.
Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally in the Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada, Viking Union Gallery in Washington, and most recently in Agora Gallery in New York City. Among other publications, she has been interviewed in Art Resource, MyArtSpace, and was shortlisted for Most Promising Artist of 2010 by Victoria’s Monday Magazine.
“Through the visual arts program in Camosun College, I studied contemporary forms of performance, design and sculpture and painting. Prior to attending Camosun, I traveled throughout China, the United States, and also areas throughout Japan, Mexico and Hawaii. Those travels informed my understanding of why and how cultural values influence not only the landscape, but also the art and architecture.
During trips to the Burning Man arts festival in the Nevada desert, I became immersed in the radical self-expressions of structures and artworks. That indelible experience reinforced my desire to combine personal interests in sustainability, urban planning and architecture with my passion for art and community.”