About Lars
Anne Arundel County
Lars Westby received a BFA in Ceramics and a BA in Art History from Penn State University. He earned an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has taught at many colleges in the Baltimore area and is currently adjunct at AACC. He has been in many exhibitions nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards and honors including three Maryland State Individual Artist Awards in 2005, 2007 and 2011. He was a resident artist at Baltimore Clayworks for a number of years and… more
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Ceramic Sculptures Current
These are sculptures I've created over the past several years. I take objects from my surroundings and transfigure them into industrial/organic implements that are slightly abstract in not being easily reconizable, Influences would include areas where I have lived and worked. These forms refer to the industrial object as a vestige of my physical environment. More importantly these sculptures refer to utilitarian objects. Implements of work. Work as craft and craft as work. The process of making conceptually becomes part of the work. This is literal and figurative. Literal in my process of creating (as in multiples) and figurative ( as in form). Many of these objects have been further transformed through subtle anatomical references as seen in their curvilinear forms and literal appendages. The Hand image and implied utilitarian motifs refer to concepts of this hand in work. They have become subverted in meaning and form as contemporary sculptures,
Ceramic Sculptures II
Ceramic sculptures created in the past few years. Source inspiration comes from the physical environment around me. I reconfigure objects into hybrid forms that come from the human created world and transform them into organic/industrial shapes with references to the human form.