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 careful attention to structure, language, and surface. I often incorporate typography directly into vessels, treating language as an architectural element that shapes proportion, form, and visual rhythm. I select words for their tone, humor, and visual qualities, exploring the tension between language as meaning and language as image.

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