Leah
Aegerter
Leah Aegerter is an artist working in object-based sculpture and installation. She lives and works in Carbondale, CO, and spends much of her free time exploring the mountains and deserts of the American West on foot and raft. Her work investigates her relationship to landscape and intimacy with material. Leah received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. In 2022 she was named an Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellow.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My sculptures are abstract portraits of moments I capture and experience in the landscape. I am attracted to rocks as genderless entities whose transformative nature codes them with life, and I explore what it means to be physically and emotionally intimate with them. As I travel through the natural world, I document my surroundings through 3D scanning, and then use digital fabrication techniques to reproduce the geological surfaces in new materials. In doing so, I aim to honor the history of the original form as well as the digital transformation as I catalog the moments my body and being meld with the world.
Rocks hold billions of years of history: history of water coursing through the landscape and eroding geological surfaces into unique textures; history of flora and fauna inhabiting vastly different landscapes than we see today; history of prolonged tectonic collision and fracture. My sculptures help me confront what it means to be a human in this current landscape, this current moment of geological history. They are physical manifestations of observed textures, feelings, and occurrences in the natural world.
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