Ariana Heinzman received her BFA in Ceramics from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2013, and has been creating and exhibiting her work regularly ever since. Including locally in exhibitions at the Vashon Center for the Arts, Pottery Northwest and is included in Seattle University’s Private Art Collection.

Her work is a metaphor for realizing ones own nudity and having the overwhelming urge to cover it up. Heinzman wields patterns of leaves to cover the ceramic form, her work becomes an allegory for The Garden of Eden. Using the anthropomorphic clay vessel, she blends the identities of earth, plant, and body into one, either to hide ones true self or to find it.

Her style uses bold lines and color to hide, or to over-accentuate, or to balance the relationship between form and surface. There is an inherent humor to the work as if to take a deep dive into one’s soul only to emerge and realize it is not that serious.

Ariana Heinzman lives and works on Vashon Island, WA

Ariana Heinzman is a ceramic based artist, creating sculpture, wall works, and functional objects that blend floral imagery, utilitarian objects, and the human figure.  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. 

Seattle University Art Collection
The Port of Seattle at SEATAC Airport