Artist statement

Amayi Morales is a multimedia artist using embodied mark making to map and envision how interdependent networks of natural landscapes that surround us, the built environment, and the body and mind can be a tool for understanding our roles on earth as humans. Maneuvering gestures which range from micro to macro, she positions the body as a metaphor for the very structures that bodies inhabit and rely on for regulation and survival built or otherwise. Utilizing modes of abstraction, Morales aims to further imagine futures in which the physiological effects of environment on human relationships can be held in reverence and honored as a resource and tool for resilience and freedom.

 

Morales was born in San Diego, CA and currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. During her time at SFAI she was awarded an Ivan Majdrakoff Materials Award and Honors Studio at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in 2019 and 2020. She has been featured in exhibitions that include Avatars// Ghosts at Nave Gallery// Somerville MA, Mayors Pride// Mayors Office//Atlanta GA, Story Telling, Poetry as Critical Form, and curated Corporeal Prison at Diego Rivera Gallery// San Francisco Art Institute.