Originally from Mexico City, Erik Ordaz Lozano is a ceramic artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. His work explores abstraction, layered surfaces, and evolving systems of relation through ceramic forms that shift between micro and macro readings.

In Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s), Erik Ordaz Lozano presents ceramic spheres that all begin from the same form and size, but slowly become completely different through markings and repeated firings. The exhibition explores coincidences — moments where people and different worlds intersect for a brief moment in time.

The longer you look at the work, the more things begin to appear. There’s no front or back, no single correct way to look at them. Like in life, what we see shifts depending on where we stand.

Originally from Mexico City, Erik Ordaz Lozano is a ceramic artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. His work explores abstraction, layered surfaces, and shifting relationships through ceramic forms that move between micro and macro worlds.

The artist writes:

By removing a fixed front or single point of view from which the works can be fully understood, I try to create movement. Not only physical movement around the pieces, but also mental and, in some cases, emotional movement.

The relationships between color, form, texture, surface, and rhythm are constantly changing, and for me that physical experience connects directly to the ideas that interest me most: how meaning, identity, and memory are not fixed things, but conditions formed through relationships, movement, and change.

This series has allowed me to think about those connections in an open way. The spheres do not function as representations, but as small environments that are part of a larger, possibly infinite system, where different readings can exist at the same time without ever fully resolving.