Heidi Mraz
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Automotive Artist & Documentarian
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Biography
Heidi Mraz is an internationally acclaimed automotive artist and documentarian whose work celebrates the history, craftsmanship, and hidden stories behind some of the world’s most iconic automobiles. Based in Great Falls, Virginia, she creates contemporary fine artworks that blend research, storytelling, and visual artistry, transforming each piece into a narrative-rich tribute to automotive heritage.
Her clients include many of the world’s leading collectors, museums, and automotive brands, and her work has been showcased globally. In 2022, Heidi made her UK debut at Sotheby’s in London as part of the Royal Automobile Club’s prestigious Art of Motoring Exhibition, further solidifying her reputation as a leading voice in motoring art.
A member of the Guild of Motoring Artists and an Artist Pro Tem at the renowned Torpedo Factory Art Center, Heidi has served as the official poster artist for major concours events, including the Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance and the Art in Motion Concours. She is commissioned annually to paint the winning cars of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, one of the most celebrated automotive events in the world.
Beyond her studio practice, Heidi is a consulting curator for The White Collection in San Francisco and has judged several prominent American concours. Her ability to merge fine art with historical documentation has earned her a distinctive place within the automotive art community, making her a sought-after artist whose work preserves the legacy and culture of motoring for future generations.
Artist: Heidi Mraz
Medium: Ultra HD Archive on Aluminum Panel, Black Float Frame, Fine Art, Unique Edition - Original
Size: 18” x 24”
Portrait features the Lamborghini Aventador S in a Protea-inspired, automotive, floral design.
Inspired by the word play ofa familiar idiom and the archetypal botanical print, Heidi handcrafted the semblance of exotic flowers out of layered paper cut from car magazines and images taken from her own camera and ‘rooted’ them to a bed of brushed aluminum sheet metal. These colorful, engineered ‘power plants’ are masterfully styled similar to a vintage floral print. Botanical descriptions are replaced with car statistics and black line drawings are made of the featured vehicles rather than flowers. Petal to the Metal conceptually reimagines automotive art and propagates the idea that beauty can be found in both nature and machine.
People Will Stare
Heidi Mraz
£3,000
Artist: Heidi Mraz
Medium: Chromogenic on Aluminum Panel, Black Float Frame, Fine Art, Unique Edition
Size: 30” x 45”
Dedicated to preserving and uncovering automotive history, Heidi Mraz was inspired by an important moment in Porsche’s past when works drivers and engineers took the unstable 917 to the Osterreichring race track in Austria to see if they could determine whyittended to lift off the track at high speed. Porsche’s JWAE team manager and engineer, John Horsman, noticed dead gnats covering the car except on the rear spoilers and realized that this meant there was little or no airflow to the tail and, therefore, insufficient downforce to keep the car on the track when racing. This epiphany would result in one of the greatest racing legends of all time and the overall winner at Le Mans both in 1970 and 1971.
Symbolically, butterflies draw a variety of parallels tothe 917’s story in that they are lightweight insects and that, just like the 917, they need to undergo a metamorphosis in order to mature.
“Aerodynamics by Entomology” is an assemblage portrait of one of the greatest known Porsche 917Ks–Chassis 917-022–inexistence, which entered Hollywood stardom after its debut in the movie, “Le Mans” starring Steve McQueen. This piece of artismade from approximately 1000 paper butterflies and other insects that match the iconic Gulf car’s blue and orange racing livery. Hand-cut, placed and pinned, the butterflies add poignant dimension and illusion of movement to the artistic portrayal of the 917. With her optically-rich, signature approach to collage made through the deconstruction of many materials and then the reconstruction of one illusory subject, Heidi Mraz plays with how the mind sees and perceives objects that then beg for further investigation.
Aerodynamics By Entomolgy
Heidi Mraz
£8,500
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