ARTIST MISSION
Installation artist Lara Whitley finds joy in the materials encountered. She reclaims objects that society no longer wants — discarded, decommissioned or destined for the landfill — and reimagines them in new narratives. Whitley has rescued old bar bottles, dinner plates, work boots, window panes and camping tents; she has reshaped them into contemplative spaces — a meditation temple, a forest shrine, a film festival portal — and much more. She is interested in the renewal and healing that are available to all when we put broken things back together in new ways.

CITY OF ASPEN CULTURAL VIBRANCY FELLOW [2023/24]
ASPEN ART MUSEUM ARTISTIC FELLOW [2021/22]
ASPEN SPACE STATION ASPENAUT [2021/22]
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD — CO Art of the State [2019]
"A SCULPTOR TO WATCH" — Aspen Sojourner magazine
"TEN ARTISTS NOT TO MISS" — 303Magazine.com*

VIDEO: Timelapse of the "Field Signs" install + debut at 5Point Film Festival in Carbondale, CO, April 2024. Field Signs is a roving, site-specific installation of flags made from crowd-sourced camping tents. In its the second iteration of the year, the project appeared at the Red Brick Center for the Arts during Aspen Art Week.

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