Untitled Bowl with Double Triangle

About Untitled Bowl with Double Triangle

This contemporary ceramic black and melon coloured bowl is by Steven Heinemann.

Celebrated internationally for his technical wizardry with clay and his visionary aesthetic, Steven Heinemann has consistently challenged the boundaries of his art form. Working with clay, he often uses ‘slip cast moulding’—a technique that is used for shapes that cannot be easily built on a potter’s wheel. By building up fine layers of clay and allowing each one to dry, he attains incredible textures and variations in the surface as they naturally shrink and crack. This has become Heinemann’s signature in his decades-long exploration of minimalist form, colour and texture. This oval-shaped bowl has a smooth black exterior, and the interior is a melon colour—its surface is cracked and adorned with a double triangle symbol at the bottom. The double triangle can mean many things depending on its configuration, but it is often a symbol of the balance between masculine and feminine.

"The dynamics of containment that the bowl offers you, that can be stretched and extended into things that are not bowls, but still incorporate similar aspects of volume and containment of space.” Steven Heinemann

“Steven is trying to work out these incredibly demanding concepts: What is form? What is an object? What is a sphere? How do they relate to space?” Dr. Rachel Gotlieb, Curator and Historian

Steven Heinemann earned an MFA from Alfred University, NY, in 1983 and has taught in Canada and the US. Heinemann has exhibited continuously since his first solo exhibition at the Ontario Crafts Council in 1982. His work is held in museums the world over. Heinemann has received many national and international awards.