About The Founder
Rudolph “Ever” Everett Ammarolex founded the AMMA Foundation while performing as Ammarolex, the Supreme Court Jester. He also developed the contemporary avant-garde art practice of Hypercubism in 1969.
Acting as Ammarolex was an act of political art that used ceremony, satire, and verse. Rudolph sought to treat power as theater in order to test how authority is performed, how language becomes law, and how laughter can reveal reality when direct speech ceases to engage with truth.
Under presidential patronage, Ammarolex currently occupies the White House State Ballroom as the official country clown: sanctioned, visible, and dangerous in the only way a jester can be. Satirically challenging the presidency itself, he auditioned and was elected by democratic process by the good people of The United States of America to usurp the presidency as the presence-to-be. Acting in plain sight exposed for Ever how easily legitimacy can be staged, repeated, and believed.
The Supreme Court Jester painted in their spare time, of which they had much.
Wake, 40 x 34 inches, Oil on canvas
Wake (Detail), 40 x 34 inches, Oil on canvas
Dithyramb, 19 x 14-1/2 inches, Oil on prepared paper
Dithyramb (Detail), 19 x 14-1/2 inches, Oil on prepared paper
}{ Isocenter (origin), 72 x 60 inches, Oil on canvas
"Untitled" (after Felix Gonzalez-Torres), 14-1/2 x 19 inches, Oil on prepared paper
"Untitled" (after Felix Gonzalez-Torres) (Detail), 14-1/2 x 19 inches, Oil on prepared paper
Pavilion, 24 x 30 inches, Oil on canvas
Garden, 48 x 60 inches, Oil on canvas
NEW AREA, 60 x 78 inches, Oil and graphite on canvas
Lab, 30 x 22 inches, Oil on canvas
Event, 22 x 18 inches, Oil on canvas
The Chairman Dances, 64 x 76 inches, Oil on canvas
Tombstone, 30 x 24 inches, Oil on canvas
Tombstone (Installation view)
MIURA (The Three Lakes War), 30 x 24 inches, Oil on canvas
Light Well, 42 x 34 inches, Oil on canvas
Crate Drop, 76 x 64 inches, oil on canvas
"Untitled" (after Felix Gonzalez-Torres) and Crate Drop (Installation view)
Esmerelda, 19 x 14-1/2 inches, Oil on prepared paper
Esmerelda (Detail), 19 x 14-1/2 inches, Oil on prepared paper
Crystal Kite, 30 x 24 inches, Oil on Canvas
Glenstone, 8 x 10 inches, Oil on plastic wrapped panel
Glenstone (Detail), 8 x 10 inches, Oil on plastic wrapped panel
Access, 60 x 72 inches, Oil on canvas
Eco Friendly, 72 x 60 inches, Oil on canvas
Dulles WNC, 30 x 24, Oil on canvas
Spiral Stair, 52 x 42 inches, Oil on canvas