Angelica Lorenzi
Angelica Lorenzi (b. 1990, Italy) is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, and educator whose work moves between ceramics, textiles, furniture, sculpture, and spatial practice. Trained as an architect, she approaches objects as things to be inhabited not only physically, but imaginatively: vessels become creatures, surfaces acquire a life of their own, and familiar forms seem to hold something just beyond recognition.
Working across materials and scales, Lorenzi follows ideas through making. A form developed in clay might find an echo in a textile; a surface becomes a place for pattern to accumulate, a structure for ornament to grow, or a skin that both protects and exposes what lies beneath. Her practice is attentive to the unruly qualities of materials—their resistance, their textures, the unexpected possibilities that emerge through repetition, transformation, and the encounter between hand and process. Rather than treating ornament as a finishing touch, she gives it a generative role, allowing it to shape the identity and behavior of an object.
Ornament occupies a central place in this work, not as an embellishment applied after the fact, but as a way of giving form its character and opening it to other meanings. Lorenzi is interested in the strange proximity between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, attraction and unease. Her objects may invite touch or suggest use, yet resist being fully understood as functional things. Their surfaces hold an abundance that feels at once protective and revealing, as if the act of covering something might also be a way of bringing it into view. Across her work, the natural world is less a subject to represent than a source of forms, relations, and possible ways of imagining life.
Lorenzi holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Innsbruck and a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she studied under Hani Rashid. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, MAK Museum in Vienna, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Cleo the Gallery, Modest Common, and Galerie Lulla. She is a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where she teaches design studios and seminars.
Working across materials and scales, Lorenzi follows ideas through making. A form developed in clay might find an echo in a textile; a surface becomes a place for pattern to accumulate, a structure for ornament to grow, or a skin that both protects and exposes what lies beneath. Her practice is attentive to the unruly qualities of materials—their resistance, their textures, the unexpected possibilities that emerge through repetition, transformation, and the encounter between hand and process. Rather than treating ornament as a finishing touch, she gives it a generative role, allowing it to shape the identity and behavior of an object.
Ornament occupies a central place in this work, not as an embellishment applied after the fact, but as a way of giving form its character and opening it to other meanings. Lorenzi is interested in the strange proximity between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, attraction and unease. Her objects may invite touch or suggest use, yet resist being fully understood as functional things. Their surfaces hold an abundance that feels at once protective and revealing, as if the act of covering something might also be a way of bringing it into view. Across her work, the natural world is less a subject to represent than a source of forms, relations, and possible ways of imagining life.
Lorenzi holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Innsbruck and a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she studied under Hani Rashid. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, MAK Museum in Vienna, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Cleo the Gallery, Modest Common, and Galerie Lulla. She is a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where she teaches design studios and seminars.