About

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. Using a combination of digital fabrication techniques and traditional processes in materials such as paper, wood, and steel, her work investigates her relationship to landscape and deep time. Leah received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 and in 2022 was named an Aspen Art Museum Artist Fellow.

mail: leahaegerter@gmail.com
instagram: @leahaegerter

Artist Statement

My sculptures are abstractions of moments I experience in the landscape. Attracted to rocks as entities whose transformative nature codes them with life, I explore what it means to build emotional intimacy with them. As I travel through the natural world, I document geological textures through 3D scanning and then use digital fabrication techniques to reproduce the rocks in new materials such as wood and paper. I balance these translations with crafted forms, marrying the land and the hand as I expand upon the rock’s natural life cycle and envision fragments of future landscapes.

Geology documents the histories and impressions of its countless lives. When we look at rocks, we glimpse the past while experiencing a current state of being.  In an exchange of knowledge with the land, I fossilize my own moments of the physical and emotional human experience as tactile, geological representations. My sculptures help me confront what it means to be human in these animate landscapes that collapse deep time into the present moment.