Shop Maine Craft presents “INKED: Natural Pigments from Mexico to Maine,” a solo exhibition by Kaspar Heinrici of Treib Designs, on view Feb. 27 to April 10 at the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner.
The exhibition brings together drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture to examine the intersections of material, perception and place, grounding conceptual inquiry in the physical realities of pigment, surface and environment.
Through a multidisciplinary practice, Heinrici investigates how human perception constructs meaning, value, and desire, from the mechanics of light and shadow that create illusions of depth to the cultural signals embedded in designed objects. His work operates at the crossroads of art, design, and marketing, asking how form functions not only visually but socially, shaping assumptions about status, taste, and identity. “My work investigates how human perception constructs meaning, value, and desire,” Heinrici writes, “from the basic mechanics of light and shadow that create an illusion of depth to the cultural signals embedded in designed objects. I am interested in how form operates not only visually, but socially.”
Trained as an industrial designer, Heinrici works across drawing, painting, animation, sculpture, and product design, bridging fine art and commercial production. His practice emphasizes iterative processes and cross-media translation, exploring how cost, scale, and reproduction influence access to art and design. Now based in Maine, Heinrici’s recent work centers on natural pigment extraction and Maine-derived materials, situating broader questions of perception and value within a specific geographic and material context.
The Center for Maine Craft is a year-round retail gallery and exhibition space dedicated to the work of Maine craft artists. Located at the West Gardiner Service Plaza, the gallery represents more than 300 members of the Maine Crafts Association and showcases a wide range of craft media, techniques, and both contemporary and traditional approaches to design. The Center for Maine Craft is located at 288 Lewiston Road in West Gardiner and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information about “INKED: Natural Pigments from Mexico to Maine,” visit shopmainecraft.com/inked-in-maine-kaspar-heinrici-2026.
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