Andrew Werby

About

Andrew Werby is an artist, designer, and inventor with a decades-long practice in digital sculpture, who is constantly pushing boundaries across a wide range of media.

Andrew Werby at Donor’s Gallery in San Rafael.

Artist Statement

“Natural objects speak a language of their own, which is independent of any artistic style developed by man. By capturing Nature’s forms and textures and using them in combination with each other to concentrate their innate power, searching for affinities, mating one with another and combining them into works of art, I feel I’m becoming conversant in this language, which is at the root of our innate sense of beauty. In my Juxtamorphic work, I’m attempting to construct an aesthetic based entirely on Nature, not by representing or abstracting it, but by dealing with it directly on its own terms.”

Catalog

A selection of Andrew Werby’s work in art and design is presented on this website. As well as showing sets of photographic IMAGES, many of the sculptural pieces are presented as interactive 3D displays. Two techniques were used to do this: 3D scanning and photogrammetry (MODELS) and Gaussian splatting (SPLATS).

Biography

Andrew Werby started making ceramic sculpture while in elementary school. As an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s, he became involved in learning the technique of lost-wax bronze casting, which Peter Voulkos and others were reviving as a skill for artists to master directly, in contrast to the then-usual practice of consigning a maquette to a professional foundry for enlargement, molding, and casting. The ability of molds to capture sculpturally significant information from natural objects was a cause of particular fascination. Borrowing specimens from the paleontology, anthropology, and geology departments of the University, he made a series of molds, which became the nucleus of a mold library representing hundreds of natural objects. From these first molds, wax casts were made, then combined into composite creations which were cast in bronze and aluminum. Since receiving his Design degree, he has continued to pursue further applications of this idea, producing sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, holograms, architectural hardware, computer graphics, and various art objects in this “Juxtamorphic” style. An innovator in matters of technique as well as in aesthetics, he developed the Sculpted Paint process to produce colorful and highly detailed but durable sculpture and jewelry. He has shown his work around the world, including China, India, Japan, and Europe as well as in many US states.

Practice

Andrew Werby is a founder of the Juxtamorphic Art Movement. Juxtamorphic art uses information from natural objects as its vocabulary, combining forms, textures, and images taken directly from Nature using 3D scans, molds, impressions, photographs, and holograms. He feels that juxtaposing the natural forms, textures, and images that constitute the Earth’s aesthetic heritage and experiencing them in novel contexts can prompt a new appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us. Click for more on JUXTAMORPHISM.

Selected exhibitions Exhibits

Date	Role	Exhibit	Location
January February 2025	Exhibitor	Forma Natura: Nature as Source Arts Benicia's Commander's Quarters Gallery	Benicia, California
June July 2024	Participant	Synthesis - Digital Craft Floyd Center of the Arts	Floyd, Virginia
January February 2024	Exhibitor	CYBERSCULPTURE 2024 College des Bernardins	Paris, France
August October 2023	Exhibitor	Art Meets Tech Sun Gallery	Hayward, California
July August 2023	Solo exhibition	Juxtamorphic Explorations Donor's Gallery Sponsored by Artworks Downtown	San Rafael, California
September 2022	Exhibitor	The Speculative Object HTW University Event: International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art	Berlin, Germany
August 2022	Exhibitor	Postal Collage 11 Berkeley Art Center Presented by Berkeley Commonplace	Berkeley, California
June July 2021	Exhibitor	Intersculpt 20-21 Galerie Maitre Albert Presented by Ars Mathematica	Paris, France
November December 2018	Exhibitor	The Politics of Space Plaxall Gallery	Long Island City, New York
February 2017	Exhibitor	Currently 80 Westbeth Gallery Presented by Sculptor's Guild Curated by John Yau	West Village, New York
December 2016	Exhibitor	The Nature Game Inside 3D Printing exposition	San Diego, California
May 2016	Exhibitor	Rapid 2016 Contemporary Art Show Sponsored by Society of Manufacturing Engineers	Orlando, Florida
January February 2016	Exhibitor	Into the Future Expressions Gallery Curated by Rinna Flor	Berkeley, California
January 2016	Exhibitor	Virtually Solid - Digital Fabrication as Sculpture Florida State University, Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts	Jacksonville, Florida
October November 2015	Exhibitor	3D Glitch Priestman Gallery Curated by James Hutchinson	Sunderland, United Kingdom
July September 2015	Participant	Superstrata: 3D Printed Art Compound Gallery Curated by Matt and Lena Reynoso	Oakland, California
February 2015	Exhibitor	Beyond the Buzz: New Forms in Digital Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design Curated by Kerry Morgan	Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 2015	Participant	What Things May Come: 3D Printing in the Fine Arts and Sciences Southwestern University Event: Brown Symposium Curated by Mary Visser and Christian Lavigne	Georgetown, Texas
November 2014	Exhibitor	Science, Technology and the Future of Art Pacific Art League Curated by Gail Wight	Palo Alto, California
October 2014	Exhibitor	Materialize Shemer Art Center and Museum Curated by Dan Collins	Phoenix, Arizona
September 2014	Exhibitor	Real/Surreal Sandra Lee Gallery Curated by Dewitt Cheng	San Francisco, California
August 2014	Exhibitor	25th Annual International Solid FreeForm Fabrication Symposium Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, Southwest University Curated by Mary Visser	Georgetown, Texas
June July 2014	Exhibitor	Oakland Makers OMI Gallery Curated by Hiroko Kurihara	Oakland, California
June 2014	Exhibitor	Rapid 2014 Contemporary Art Show Sponsored by Society of Manufacturing Engineers	Detroit, Michigan
March 2014	Exhibitor	Return of the Thing Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College Curated by Kim Thoman	Richmond, California
October 2013	Exhibitor	3D Camp art show Curated by Bridgette Mongeon	Houston, Texas
September 2013	Exhibitor	Bone and Blood Squid3 Gallery Curated by Phillip Schalecamp	Chicago, Illinois
September 2013	Exhibitor	Bilan d'Intersculpt 2013 en Corse 2013 Curated by Christian Lavigne	Corsica, France
June 2013	Exhibitor	Contemporary Art Gallery at Rapid 2013 Sponsored by Society of Manufacturing Engineers	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 2013	Exhibitor	ItsfromBits Engine gallery	Rockwell, Maine
January 2013	Exhibitor	Eye, Hand, and Mind India Habitat Centre	New Delhi, India
December 2012 January 2013	Exhibitor	Wonders Berkeley Art Center	Berkeley, California
October November 2012	Exhibitor	Superimpositions So Weit, die ZuKunst Gallery	Vienna, Austria
July August 2012	Exhibitor	Spark 3DS Gallery 13	Minneapolis, Minnesota
July August 2012	Exhibitor	The Wonderful World of Insects Terraria Gallery	Berkeley, California
September November 2011	Participant	Enlightenment Heyang Art Museum Event: 1st International Sculpture Exhibition of Datong Biennial Curated by Peng Feng	Inner Mongolia, China
August 2011	Two-person show	Two-person show with Lu Beury 525 Market Street Curated by Will Torphy	San Francisco, California
May 2011	Participant, organizer, and speaker	Rapid 2011 contemporary art show Presented by Society of Manufacturing Engineers	Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 2010	Solo exhibition	Juxtamorphs Mercury 20 gallery Curated by Dewitt Cheng	Oakland, California
October 2010	Exhibitor	De la Terre a l'Espace: Exobiologie et Biodiversite, Biotechnologies et Biothique	Paris, France
2010	Exhibitor	Continuous group showing Beijing-Tomorrow Art Gallery	Beijing, China
November 2009	Exhibitor	The Digital Frame Altered Esthetics Gallery	Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 2009	Exhibitor	Bejeweled Olive Hyde Gallery	Fremont, California
August September 2009	Exhibitor	Technopia Skyline College	San Bruno, California
November 2008 February 2009	Exhibitor	E-form	Multiple venues in China
June July 2008	Exhibitor	Dig-it Hayward City Hall Sponsored by Sun Gallery	Hayward, California
October 2007	Presenter	Intersculpture 2007: Digital Sculpture and Biomorphisme	Nancy, Lorraine, France
June 2007	Exhibitor	2nd annual Maker's Faire San Mateo County Fairgrounds Sponsored by Reilly Publications	San Mateo, California
June 2007	Exhibitor	Lowdown Hoedown Livingroom and WC (Ghost-town) galleries	Oakland, California
June 2006	Exhibitor	Group show at Salon Europeen de la Recherche et de l Innovation	Paris, France
November 2005	Exhibitor	Intersculpt 2000	Paris and Nancy, France
October 2005	Exhibitor	Alumni Art Show Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California
August 2005	Two-person show	Two-person show at Tryptych Gallery Tryptych Gallery	Berkeley, California
June 2002	Exhibitor	1001 Reasons to Love the Earth Presented by World Art Foundation	Netherlands and Korea
May 2002	Exhibitor	Digital Visions The Center for Contemporary Art	Sacramento, California
May 2000	Exhibitor	Intersculpt 2000	Paris, France
May 1999	Presenter	Computers and Sculpture Forum Event: International Sculpture Society's Chicago convention	Chicago, Illinois
November 1998	Solo exhibition	Sculpted paint reliefs Berkeley Bowl Cafe	Berkeley, California
September 1992	Exhibitor	Faux Primitive Contra Costa College Gallery	Richmond, California
August 1992	Exhibitor	Group show Tower Gallery	Oakland, California
September 1991	Exhibitor	The Fossil Record Geo Arte Gallery	Santa Monica, California
June 1990	Exhibitor	The Mechanics of Death Ghia gallery	San Francisco, California
April 1990	Exhibitor	Art in Biology, Biology in Art Weir Gallery	Berkeley, California
October 1989	Solo exhibition	Jewelry and sculpture Something/Anything, Ghirardelli Square	San Francisco, California
Winter 1988	Exhibitor	Bay Area Bronze Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center	Walnut Creek, California
October 1987	Exhibitor	Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Weir Gallery	Berkeley, California
May 1985	Exhibitor	The Wonder of Holography Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society Headquarters	Washington, District of Columbia
Fall 1984	Exhibitor	American Holography Gekkoso Gallery	Tokyo, Japan
November 1983	Exhibitor	Juxtamorphs' 83 20 X 20 Gallery	San Francisco, California
February 1982	Exhibitor	Second Juxtamorphic Exposition Greenwood Gallery	Seattle, Washington
Fall 1981	Solo exhibition	Works in bronze, cast paper, and ceramic Studio One Art Center Gallery	Oakland, California
Fall 1980	Exhibitor	First Juxtamorphic Exposition University of California's Heller Gallery	Berkeley, California
September 1977	Solo exhibition	Juxtamorphs Loeb-Rhodes Gallery	San Francisco, California
August 1975	Exhibitor	Two-man show of sculpture Villa Montalvo Art Center With Luis Jimenez	Saratoga, California

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