Aaron Lee Sturtz is a Denver-based sculptor working
in hand-carved clay at a handheld scale.

He begins by shaping a biomorphic mass, in dialogue
with the tradition associated with Jean (Hans) Arp,
then carves reductively to resolve compact, tactile forms informed by his time in the mountains and canyons
of the American West.

Fired to 2232°F, the clay darkens, vitrifies, and takes on
a soft sheen -an echo of stone remade by rising ranges and canyons carved through petrified dunes.

Recent work studies cadence, interval, and pressure:
the compression and expansion shared by
calligraphy, geology, and music.

Studio visits by appointment.