“Amaral’s works feel at once primitive and contemporary; they refer to indigenous traditions found in centuries-old civilizations, but their execution and presentation conform to concerns found in our own t.mes . They can appear ethereal and illusory, while others seem almost petrified by age. It is this duality that lends her work a t.mes less quality; her art is anthropological, exploring ideas found in the way we understand history expressed in objects and in the way in which we perceive form, color, and material in the world around us.”