Santa Clarita experiences. Art from inspiration of change.

Art from inspiration to the changes

Ama Reyes

Ama is a Venezuelan artist, born in a rural community 45 minutes from the Capital, Caracas; known as Naiguata. Ama has American Indian and Spanish inherency and has being as well in regular and close connection with African cultures, whose developed small communities around the coast of Venezuela, were Ama was born.  Since early age she has experience direct contact with habits, customs and music from African- Indian cultures.
Since early age she has studied popular-traditional music and dance from different parts of her country. During early adulthood, Ama introduced herself to classical music by learning vocal techniques and singing at the University Institute of Music in Sartenejas- Caracas, with the professor Manuela Velo and Jazz and pop with Biella Da Costa.  

She was member  of the most important choir of Venezuela: The Scholla Cantorum de Venezuela for 7 years, institution that is linked to "the Sistema", the more organized Orchestra System working with underserved and needed population in the last 40 years. Ama worked as well for "the sistema" during 12 years as a Social Worker of the University Institute of Music, where their teachers and directors were formed. 

Since early age Ama drew and painted images of nature combined with other elements as a mixture of her innocent style and creativity for changes of the image of the world through her paintings.  Since 2007 Ama started to introduce more complex elements in her paintings, such as pins, different papers, branch of trees, rocks, sand, lipsticks, etc. The more common colors used by Ama are in the more brilliant and energetic palette such as reds, orange, yellow and dark greens. 

Colors:  Red, yellow and orange as inspiration

 Dancers

Green sky

Rituals:  Experiences with my grandmother. Content related to life and death, spirituality based in American-Indian stories of the flying of the soul after death. 

Blue stage

In her Blue Stage, Ama is inspired by the loneliness of living far from her Country of origin, remembering old landscapes presented with a tone of sadness and hope at the same time.  With her recent creations, Ama shows to the viewers how the adaptation from changes influenced on the psyquis in order to regulate the emotions for a more suitable assimilation to the new cultures and values as the compromise for human being to continue in their path of life.   

Ama Reyes is a Social Worker from the Central University of Venezuela, with a Master in Human Resource Management from the Santa Maria University (Caracas, Venezuela)
During the 6 years living in the USA, Ama accomplished her goal as an Early Childhood Educator and currently is working as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern in Van Nuys, CA after completing her Master in Psychology in 2013.