About

Biography

At the age of eight, Heinze began studying under Batik artist Helen Carkin and won various awards throughout middle school and high school. During college, he interned at Pittard Sullivan, where he helped design set pieces for TNT and NBC and storyboarded commercials for large corporate clients. After that, Heinze was the illustrator for York Publishing before earning an MBA from California State University, Chico, and a PhD from Florida Atlantic University. He went on to complete projects for Disney, the NBA, Oracle, Simon & Schuster, Cosmos-Maya Studios, Applewood Books, Arcadia Publishing, and more. In 2022, he left commercial work to pursue fine art.

Artist Statement

I try to create paintings that capture a feeling of mystery, beauty, and melancholy - "to reach the unreachable, to discover the undiscoverable, to touch the divine."

 

Shows

2024 "Collections" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2024 "Resurrection" - House of Shadows at Kress Contemporary, Tampa, Florida

2024 "Shades of Blue" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2024 "ArtPHL" - ArtPHL, Palm Harbor, Florida

2023 "Storytelling" - Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida

2023 "Passions" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2023 "Unreal Surreal" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2023 "ArtPHL" - Featured Artist, ArtPHL, Palm Harbor, Florida

2023 "Sweet Death" - House of Shadows, Tampa, Florida

2023 "Drawn" - House of Shadows, Tampa, Florida

2023 "Big" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2022 "Nightmare on Kennedy" - House of Shadows, Tampa, Florida

2022 "Black and White" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2022 "Dia de los Muertos 3" - Atelier de SoSi, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2022 "POP!" - Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida

2022 "Happy" - Five Deuces Galleria, Saint Petersburg, Florida

2022 "ArtPHL" - ArtPHL, Palm Harbor, Florida

  

Awards

2023 Second Place, "LOL: Funny Papers" - Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida

2022 Best of Show, "Music to my Eyes" - Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida

2022 Honorable Mention, "POP!" -  Art Center Sarasota, curated by Danny Olda, Sarasota, Florida

2011 First Place, "Mystery" - Suntan Art Center, Saint Petersburg, Florida

 

Press

"Dreaming of Christmas" Book review, Osprey Observer

ArtPHL 2023 Promo Video