California artist Jonathan Ginnaty exhibits his sculptural ceramic work.
An Orange County based sculptor who recently won the 2009 Downtown Santa Ana Business District recognition award and grant for outstanding Orange County artist, Ginnaty creates astounding, full-scale clay-constructed office environments and installations.
Artist's Statement
My artwork is an expression of the banal, symbolically representing my memories, life experiences, and relationships. I make life-sized ceramic installations that recreate everyday objects and arrange them so that they visually communicate familiar environments. Producing these familiar settings is a way for me to investigate my own life, and create a dialogue about universality and content in the everyday.

Most Americans live in similar environments. The furniture of our lives has an influential and intimate role in each of our interactions and experiences. Our environments, and the memories of them, create our individuality as well as our disturbing similarity. They represent both comfort and unease, and portray the dynamic of our particular time and place in history. In my work, this dynamic freezes the temporary through the extreme permanence of ceramic sculpture.