Contact

ambarbecutie@gmail.com

Los Angeles, CA

Bio

Ambar Navarro is a Texan artist based in Los Angeles. She attended the California Institute of the Arts and earned a B.F.A. in Experimental Animation, where she focused on stop-motion animation and miniatures. Since graduating she has primarily directed music videos and musician-branded commercial work. Her miniature still lifes, which stemmed from her original stop-motion animation, have become compelling ways to create small scale scenarios and still frames around the themes of technology and her Mexican-American heritage. These scenes act as altars and mini versions of her own life, and can be found in her book "Apple, Altars, and Shrines", available only at the MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) gift shop. Her work in motion takes on a more experimental and playful route, using found and purchased objects in her animation as a way to release less narrative storytelling. Her work is inspired by fantasy and surrealism, playing with scale and incorporating VFX and in-camera techniques.

Education

California Institute of the Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Experimental Animation

Music Video Archive

Found here