I make work about touch and space. I create through a malleable process on raw canvas and paper allowing the forms agency within their creation. My work models my personal and spiritual relationship with nature, simultaneously a refuge and an illusion. After years of slowly building up compositions, using water as a guide, I am experiencing a strong desire to direct the forms. Natural compositions often serve as symbolic representations of human relationships, mirroring our own permeable membranes and close intimacy with our environment and all other bodies in motion. Oftentimes they are meant to quietly imbue a sense of atmosphere.

Makenzie Heinemann is an Arizona-born, Dallas-based visual artist. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University and BFA in Painting at Arizona State University. Her work consists of large paintings on raw canvas and smaller works on paper and paper fibers. Recently Heinemann mounted a solo exhibition at Arts Fort Worth. Following her MFA, she participated in the 33oc residency in Toffia, Italy and presented a solo exhibition at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Atlanta. In 2017 she won the Eric Fischl Vanguard Award at Phoenix College. Her painting The High Road was selected by guest curator Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Heinemann currently teaches foundational art courses and maintains a studio practice in Junius Heights.