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Artist: Lisa & Larry Whiteley
Year: 2025
Media/Materials: Forged steel, quartz crystal, mixed media paint
Size: 12 × 14 × 28 inches
Larry and Lisa Whiteley are a Texas-based collaborative artist team whose sculptural work bridges industrial craft and painterly expression. Working together through Whiteley Metal Works LLC, they create forged metal sculptures that balance strength, movement, and emotional presence.
Larry Whiteley is a sculptor and master fabricator who works across a multitude of metals, shaping forms with both contemporary techniques and restored early 20th-century machinery. His practice honors material integrity and process, allowing hammer marks, heat shifts, and structural decisions to remain visible as part of the final composition. Scale and gesture are central to his work, often pushing metal into unexpectedly organic forms that suggest growth, expansion, and vitality.
Lisa Whiteley is a multidisciplinary artist whose background in painting and surface design informs her sculptural collaborations. Drawing inspiration from natural forms, layered histories, and global design influences, she approaches surface as a living element. Through hand-applied paint, mineral tones, and subtle textural variation, she softens and deepens industrial structures, creating visual tension between permanence and fragility.
Together, their collaborative works merge physical weight with expressive nuance. Steel becomes botanical. Industrial material becomes intimate. Their sculptures reflect a shared commitment to craft, partnership, and the belief that strength and tenderness can coexist within a single form.
Rooted in Texas yet influenced by travel, architecture, and cross-cultural pattern traditions, the Whiteleys' work speaks to resilience, transformation, and the beauty found in process.
Artist: Lisa & Larry Whiteley
Year: 2025
Media/Materials: Forged steel, quartz crystal, mixed media paint
Size: 12 × 14 × 28 inches
Larry and Lisa Whiteley are a Texas-based collaborative artist team whose sculptural work bridges industrial craft and painterly expression. Working together through Whiteley Metal Works LLC, they create forged metal sculptures that balance strength, movement, and emotional presence.
Larry Whiteley is a sculptor and master fabricator who works across a multitude of metals, shaping forms with both contemporary techniques and restored early 20th-century machinery. His practice honors material integrity and process, allowing hammer marks, heat shifts, and structural decisions to remain visible as part of the final composition. Scale and gesture are central to his work, often pushing metal into unexpectedly organic forms that suggest growth, expansion, and vitality.
Lisa Whiteley is a multidisciplinary artist whose background in painting and surface design informs her sculptural collaborations. Drawing inspiration from natural forms, layered histories, and global design influences, she approaches surface as a living element. Through hand-applied paint, mineral tones, and subtle textural variation, she softens and deepens industrial structures, creating visual tension between permanence and fragility.
Together, their collaborative works merge physical weight with expressive nuance. Steel becomes botanical. Industrial material becomes intimate. Their sculptures reflect a shared commitment to craft, partnership, and the belief that strength and tenderness can coexist within a single form.
Rooted in Texas yet influenced by travel, architecture, and cross-cultural pattern traditions, the Whiteleys' work speaks to resilience, transformation, and the beauty found in process.