Collection: Ariana Heinzman

Ariana Heinzman is a ceramic-based artist, creating sculpture, wall works, and functional objects that blend floral imagery, utilitarian objects, and the human figure. She received her BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence). Her work represents the dueling desires of succumbing to nature and controlling it. However distressing these conflicting desires can be, the work honors the beauty of this life with joyful patterns and forms that celebrate nature and human ingenuity.

Increasingly interested in the absurd, Heinzman's practice is a series of translations between materials, particularly flat materials and voluptuous clay forms. These dimensional and material shifts allow for something to be lost in translation, causing something absurd to happen. Ariana Heinzman lives and works on Vashon Island, WA.