Iza Lozano^[10]

Iza Lozano (Baja California,1991) is a Mexican ceramic artist currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland.

She studied ceramics at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where she lived and developed her practice until 2020 when moving to Aotearoa / New Zealand. Since then, she has completed artist-in-residence programs at Auckland Studio Potters and Driving Creek Pottery.

Currently working from MUD Studios, a shared ceramics studio close to Maungarei / Mt.Wellington.

Iza´s works are inspired in archaeological objects from multiple cultural origins. Using the potter´s wheel as her main tool and terracotta or stoneware clay, she creates contrasting volumes as segments that are later assembled to constitute intricate shapes, which are often burnished with the help of rocks, spoons, and/or blades, leaving a smooth surface, naked clay and the trace of an orbital motion.

Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Spain, and Aotearoa.

Candle stands Ver,1 - XS, S, M or L

$110.00

Mexican Potter, Based in Auckland, Iza Lozano's new series of works

'Searching for minerals beneath volcanoes'

These hematite stone-inspired ceramic works are the starting point of an ongoing series/exploration on minerals, flux, and texture.

Wheel-thrown, coiled, and modeled during a residency at Auckland Studio Potters at the end of 2022, these plinths, large-scale vessels, candleholders, posters, have been mid-fired with glazes primarily based on bone ash and metal oxides.

Minerals and other objects such as marbles, quartz crystals, rutile pebbles, and metal have been fired to melt -or not- on top of the glaze, leaving a trace, a crater, a flowing feature. Landscape.

Materials: Clay Wheel-thrown, minerals, quartz, metal & black glaze vessel.

Size: Approx. L - D75 x H215mm || M - D75x H165mm || S - D70x H130mm

XS - D65 x H115-120mm

Handcrafted in Auckland, NZ

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