Zack Nathanson is a Los Angeles–based ceramic artist working between pottery and sculpture.

Originally from the Boston area, I hold a BFA from Pratt Institute. My work draws from modernist and brutalist architecture, graphic and industrial design, and craft traditions, combining hand-built construction with an attention to structure, language, and surface. I often incorporate typography directly into vessels, treating language as an architectural element that shapes form, proportion, and visual rhythm. Words are selected for their tone, rhythm, or humor rather than a fixed message.

Working across mid-range and high-fire processes, I build with groggy clay slabs and coils while developing custom glazes to explore color, texture, and surface variation. My practice examines how language and contemporary design systems can inhabit ceramic form while remaining connected to the long tradition of vessel-making.