http://www.claireheidinger.com/gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422739588-B59WAAF00FPZDST9LBYZ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Maple keys on celadonite, 2025, oil on canvas, 12"x14" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422739588-B59WAAF00FPZDST9LBYZ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Maple keys on celadonite, 2025, oil on canvas, 12"x14" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422648489-54OFNGURUUNSIUSXWQDA/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - "When I was little that mirror was a portal to alternate universes because you could see an infinite reflection", 2025, oil on canvas, 12"x18" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422596443-UF2DQL60D5IKA8OHVLQE/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Eagle Fence, 2025, oil on canvas, 12"x16" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1751065972529-F83KHPBUKTGD4RYDZVPN/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Bronze Napa, 2025, bronze https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1762368382565-DP5EXU1JEMWHN8KZEB1R/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Pomelo Skin, 2025, aluminum and red jewellery thread https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1752418516201-VEURH9TJL9MVN3BAI05B/image-asset.png Gallery - Living Room TV, 2025, oil on canvas, 30" x 40" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1774389951496-SPUHJA4CANMREIQ5A7W1/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Fish on, 2025, oil on canvas, 14" x 14" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422369862-YLJ63U1GIMKZGWLCC92V/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Fence Study, 2025, oil on canvas, 14"x22" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1761422317924-SQ6376MQD38D7X1OXDAA/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Fency Study, 2025, oil on wood, 10"x10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1756928728061-LPXTJ3XYZT6L34F9OO31/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Bushwick II, 2025, oil on wood, 10" x 10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1756928515633-2IDO2XCMKVVYQG6E7229/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Bushwick I, 2025, oil on wood, 10" x 10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1753812944029-P958ILTXB0WOYRBV1ZZV/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Pomelo (III), 2025, oil on wood, 10"x10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1756928407055-CC35GHTIFMYDMKP2R0KJ/Heidinger_Claire_01.jpg Gallery - Pomelo (II), 2025, oil on wood, 10"x10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746503077506-541SCC83OCO82IB10OQP/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746502584782-SFUFEYAD8U3HU1IB6PZU/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746502196558-077FVFTWIHNJSNEYQ0QE/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746502060036-1Z328H7RRCK9XRZS5OHL/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746501675171-KQ9KBUAJHZIF32Q1D99S/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1746503156635-YODZ906DAOBD3N110B4U/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1747366451214-YY4A0YRBMMJXWTE4HXVN/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1747366637978-KB5DJ5A0SZ2UF76J4AU0/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733702627380-RQ27YDCS5U9H0DHRZYEV/image-asset.jpeg Gallery Kitchen Drawer 2024 Grandfather’s kitchen drawer, ceramic 24.5” x 12.5” x 4.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1751066184934-5XWRUPM4N17R3Y4JB5GO/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Red Tiles, 2024, oil on canvas, 40"x48" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733702706848-9BZKTWOILV0Y990XP9RG/image-asset.jpeg Gallery Moquette faite au Canada 2024 Grandfather’s carpet, ceramic 50” x 20” x 9” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733703029833-MGD33KMFD67HC2STJTXV/image-asset.jpeg Gallery Pendants through the kitchen chair 2024 Grandfather’s wooden chair, ceramic, jewellery thread 12’ x 17.5” x 17.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1731701134807-ZNN5GL5PHG9CJMMKQ5GP/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1731701208195-07UMYAGKBC4NTSAGDWLY/lStudio+Session-531+copy+2.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1701304858459-9ZAAX9T2C7SJBBFGKBZA/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1731700474901-Q7ANG6Y6CGGJ62I7LWET/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1731701218479-J4IPE8R7ZAXCUAVGIHQS/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733703863475-VVC8SCP6D0CRHKDH042P/image-asset.jpeg Gallery Joy Luck Club 2024 The Joy Luck Club Book by Amy Tan, ceramic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733704154984-9V64TEU6SRN60THLKZHQ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733704268325-W4H9FKELRPYN1D7JUR9V/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1747366732070-AJS29IIIFBRIBRAN94EJ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1718294641886-LWC1GRDXPNBJYLQ99LAO/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Green Onion Chandelier, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1718294748041-OWAIW37WN920E30Y30SD/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1718295225165-GGU8PT97C6D86ELEFER4/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Cut Pomelo, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1701304631744-CA9FB30YONH5Z3K9X5W7/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Hustler, 2023, 30" x 40" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1693255054485-SF4ZRW08TALDZEZR71JJ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523844397523-09CDLIOY7ZVRJRKTUR28/IMG_7730.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1693255125250-KQQZWI694OMPHFL5BV4R/image-asset.png Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1693255211508-4APHH25OWZYJ8MPF36ZP/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1686261732246-WI8OCVLRX29H315MWZ0W/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Suzanne (iterations I, II & III), 2023, porcelain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1685568432727-WSPNXDQDCH8LL025LF3I/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Silky Black Chicken, 2023, 30x30", oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1686261633223-7ND74VPM9O4QMQ3G88SG/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - For the love of God and Jade, 2023, oil on canvas, 8x10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1661445531157-RL3JD20CBE8I5GBAIF2F/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Jade Celadon Peanuts (in situ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1661445590673-T8UV4SOE3KDZOZ45BUOU/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Jade Celadon Peanuts, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1652841556360-213E82AQTU5OQGUKW6UQ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1733703959992-HU2FV4732DWZ5RL47PAB/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Red Ginger, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1648934879900-LH88SRDJS7C6FU0KKGM9/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Pomelo, 2022 10” x 10”, oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1676753932244-WF50MB26A18DK3JXN0V9/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Old House, 2022, oil on canvas, 24" x 36" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1658592929480-9QQK2ED866EAZ9C1KEVB/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - First Time Homebuyer, 2022, oil on canvas, 30"x36" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1617307660557-KZYQCCMS6TQTC6VFNAME/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Defecating Deity, 2021 60” x 48” x 2” Oil on Canvas My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1617474509638-W0ED0X9XVAWU7CHOPPN4/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Japanese Eggplant, 2021 My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1639081584916-9AQNTEW785GCL69Q9E5L/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - That is quite classical, the orient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1617307864387-146V377C9XKH9P10LHVJ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Bell Pepper Imitation, 2021 My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1624305099774-120447UTY4EEKQZOVKPY/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Add Oil, 2021 Add Oil, 2021 oil and acrylic on canvas 24x24” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1611963033945-CRJMHZA0CELOBCDCZT2Q/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Ginger Imitation, 2021 Acrylic on Ginger, next to original vessel My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1639082906486-Z9G85FGYGWBKK3EATFNM/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Send Noods neon 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1611963224920-JDDUK2FTGKBGDUVUBA3B/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Bok Choy Imitation, 2021 Acrylic on Bok Choy, on original porcelain plate My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1639081731164-YAW82QDR4LBFXRXRMWA1/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - The Coronation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1624305254048-P6P6RR0NXYK8BFCLXMAZ/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Solidarity Painting, 2021 Oil and Acrylic on canvas Oakland Brown Berets and Black Panthers at the Alameda County Courthouse in Downtown Oakland in 1968 at a Free Huey Newton Rally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1610136496592-WTKSD9ZEUMEB4FA3LXPS/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Maskini Study, 2020 Oil on frozen pizza cardboard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1601489394412-0SFPCAP9WCPA0GEG3FEF/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Purell against Blue and White Pattern, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1586549277321-BOUV0AK15BB21L11HGNM/image-asset.png Gallery - Pillow Talk, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1613061466779-KEC1TUH0GT1UWPQ9V82T/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Lemon Porcelain Imitation, 2021 My artistic practice challenges and reclaims stereotypes of Chinese women and their sexuality by interrogating fetishism fuelled by the gaze. This is supplemented by an investigation into diasporic culture. Oil paintings and organic matter sculpture - rooted in identity, help redefine visions of postcolonialism, through the confrontation of victimization with an unwavering stare - defiant and unafraid. The translation and imitation of the patterns on porcelain have been recreated on the surface of biodegradable food products. Imitating memorialized designs hold a rich cultural history on organic objects which will change shape after a few weeks. Organic objects that represent bodies and hold imprints of distorted diasporas. Like the Vanitas and Memento mori, these objects will eventually wither and rot, rejecting its polished beauty, and transforming into decay and disgust. Similarly, Caravaggio painted Basket of Fruit (1599) and Young Sick Bacchus (1593), sick bodies and rotting fruit, succumbed to worms and insects. At present, lemon, ginger, bok choy, bell pepper, and eggplant, have been gessoed and painted in acrylic, mimicking the patterns found on its porcelain counterparts. The history of cross-cultural trade of ceramics and appropriation by the Dutch and other European rulers, led to chinoiserie becoming the popular fashion. Simultaneously migrants from these same cultures leave their homelands and build new diasporic futures in unfamiliar lands. Generations of lost connections informed the evolutions of these changes over time. We are the fruit, grown and harvested from our ancestral vines, nourished by the water and sun of the resilient spirit that lives within us. My work, Defecating Deity, shamelessly excretes an intimate, vulnerable, and grotesque depiction of loss through sexuality and beauty, alongside the porcelain organic produce. Our bodies remain resilient, but have been transformed by the violence and effects of colonialism, withering with each generation to come, and depleting itself back into our colonial landfill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1583106308328-JIKQT92I5WJ7SKLM2FGM/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - Supermarket Crabs, 2020 24” x 36” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1583181398727-OCUYL60MZFG3W4P8N0R4/ClaireHeidinger2020_ModernMadonna.jpg Gallery - 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1560381949574-YHU1I3W45FR69J3TTKP9/IMG_4587.jpg Gallery - Dumpling House, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1575294353279-OC9YG197PGAWL8OFMS7F/clerb.jpg Gallery - self-portrait, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523845060970-Q4KK42T4BQ06XCNW3T11/IMG_7730.jpg Gallery - NOT YOUR LITTLE CHINA GIRL 2018 oil on canvas 3.5 x 4.5 ft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1575293611923-LLSIC59847WOERXXYDZM/crawfy.jpg Gallery - Crawford, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1560374115809-0MFTO3EY7OOEBJGTF0N9/FullSizeRender.jpg Gallery - fish heads, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1575293517767-VR25MPXYXURQXDX9EEWH/karenhalo.jpg Gallery - 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1575294567259-W07I1ETQB4WP30ZHJVM3/IMG_2469.jpg Gallery - Krispy Kreme, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1560373456418-79WS13JPE6BLI8W1VQIP/IMG_4550.jpg Gallery - Tavishi, study 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551131760080-58CN4WD9VN2BF4KFZY3B/olivia+touched+up.jpg Gallery - "Olivia, study" 2018 24” x 36” oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1560374146122-TNXB7PPN7VOW9RMOKW9E/FullSizeRender+copy.jpg Gallery - study, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130025904-NBT04NV0ZCNL7YMLXREM/IMG_0676.jpg Gallery - "Old Father, to my son, to my granddaughter, after Choi Bik Lam" Calligraphy appropriated from my great-grandfather, Choi Bik Lam 2018 3’ x 4’, oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130165150-6FY1ZGCUMZQVMZON9Y21/IMG_8763.jpg Gallery - "Jessica" 2018 oil on canvas, currently in progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130116886-PCHBEAKRNSI2JD6HPDBD/IMG_2757.jpg Gallery - "Jar, Still Life" 2019 24” x 36”, oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551131207479-Q7JAHESQ93SWYISYNCMF/IMG_0162.JPG Gallery - "Bowl Abstraction" 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130455784-NSKB6BCQWEKWTXGG6VPR/IMG_1326.JPG Gallery - "Luck you" 2018 mixed media, 48” x 60” wood panel strainer currently in progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130667664-PTCRI4XMGZGLBZ1IKE5P/IMG_1223.JPG Gallery - Underpainting to "Luck you" 2018 collaged take-out boxes on wood panel later covered in the piece “Luck you” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1551130858027-HOFM57KRDWQT5P1RNEJ0/IMG_9984.JPG Gallery - "Olivia" 2018 4’ x 4’, acrylic on canvas, gold gel medium piped with piping bag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523845110538-UIJF6OEVJN1CBV3YGZGC/FullSizeRender-1.jpg Gallery - Silence Softoleum Block Print on acrylic and wood board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523845135555-7H7B79QTLTGAX3D8WKQJ/FullSizeRender.jpg Gallery - Stillness Softoleum Block Print on acrylic and wood board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523845154540-PTOWLKOA2YTWSWOY6RV9/FullSizeRender-2.jpg Gallery - Meditation Softoleum Block Print on acrylic and wood board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523844876728-QBD01OSXB8CY1KI4D5V8/Screen+Shot+2018-03-08+at+8.50.31+PM.png Gallery - Order and Disorder CLAIRE HEIDINGER & ERIN ZIKOS 51” TILE ON PLASTER   Order and disorder... the white, orderly, composed face we present and the colourful, chaotic world inside of us.   This standing figure is a convex-concave sculpture that allows the viewer to see both the exterior and interior. The outer shell of the sculpture is dressed in white tiles, which represents the pressure of conformity that is imposed by society. Society lacks true individuality, and ultimately creates a pristine, one-dimensional world whereby people are pressured to fit in - including younger generations. The exterior of this sculpture shows the effect of social conditioning on how one presents oneself; on how, even a child, is expected to present themself.   Inside, the decorative ensemble is colourful and organic - in representation of all the suppressed emotions, imagination, creativity, and aspirations that can be perceived as unacceptable in modern-day society. The interior is dressed in a mosaic of broken dishware, as well as tea sets that are a nostalgic reminder of childhood memories. The recontextualization of the smashed childhood memorabilia is a satirical acknowledgment of the pressure society places on children to grow up.   Nonetheless, the expected inhibition of creativity and self-expression cannot hinder one’s desire to create.   “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523845240204-EMEF136XIFA1QRK8INER/Screen+Shot+2018-03-08+at+8.47.52+PM.png Gallery - The Great Wave Commission as a hanging wall piece for an active skateboarder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58013de9be6594fdf9f534d7/1523846785379-H948EHUG16CZ95LMCUE1/FullSizeRender%2B4.jpg Gallery - Chalk Art Collaborative chalk drawing. 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Claire’s practice is motivated by familial and cultural sentimentality, history, and memory. She uses the transposition of media in ceramics and expanded painting to understand the loss of culture and history in migrant bodies. Claire has exhibited in Toronto, New York and Florence, Italy, and has held residencies with the Doris McCarthy Gallery and University Arts London/OCADU. She has been awarded by the Ontario Council of Arts (2022), Canada Council for the Arts (2023), Leslie T. and Francis Posey Scholarship (2024), Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund (2024), and published in UCLA’s Gidra Magazine (2020) and with the Doris McCarthy Gallery (2023). 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