Marina Heintze
Marina Heintze’s graphic large-scale polysemous works are an anthropologist’s wet dream. Steeped in the indexicality of all variants of violence including pathologies of power and sexuality. Marina Heintze’s “Ultra-Mod Assemblage” works are anything but arbitrary. The painstaking intentionality behind her materials and these projects involve long-term research pursuits in which Heintze combines quantitative, data-driven inquiries with multidisciplinary qualitative exploration.
Her years as a tattoo artist, production director in research and development in medical science, and currently as a graphic designer inform her graphic works made from unconventional materials addressing zoonotic transmissions, epigenetic trauma, and sexual + gun violence. Her meticulous process is exemplified through her repetitive sticker-patterning, velcro-ing, and collaging techniques.
Underneath her diverse scientific umbrella of ‘WET’ palettes, Heintze handles histological synthetic stains used in Gram’s Method to classify bacteria as well as Gentian Violet, Methylene Blue, Neon Basic Yellow for Latent Fingerprinting. Her DRY’ palette comprises diverse target stickers and shooting target poster papers.
This assembly is an ongoing visual experiment of the biological interaction between the individual and technology, the Female-structure, Soft and Hard Power, and Sexual Violence.
Heintze has been written up in Artnet News, Hyperallergic, The NY Post, The NY Magazine, Bedford + Bowery, Inked Magazine, Vast Art Issue #02. She has shown at Kerry Schuss Gallery, KNOCKDOWN Center, Field Projects, Shrine NYC, and Art Share LA. For The SpringBreak Art show in Los Angeles, Heintze showcased her ‘Kama Shooter’ installation. In 2021, she exhibited, ‘The Glow-ups’ at the Bendix building. Heintze was selected for the Artist Windows of WeHo. She received The Culver City Arts Foundation Grant: Projecting Possibilities. Her work will be featured internationally by the Digital Humanities Lab (University of Basel) for the Visualizing the Virus Project.
In 2021, artist, Marina Heintze and anthropologist, Dr. Dana M. Ernst co-founded: kabbaLAB: a multimodal praxis in visual art, epidemiological research, and creative experimental forms of social theory. Heintze presently lives and works out of her studio: Minutiae in downtown Los Angeles, California.
