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Amanda Langer Artworks

Amanda Langer is a sculpture artist working in metal and fiber media.

Her work explores connections and relations between similar and dissimilar materials, and by extension, those between humans and our environment.

05/08/2026

A new piece, as of yet untitled, that has been residing in the studio waiting for me to decide whether it is done, which I have just today concluded it is.

I've been greatly enjoying exploring this technique of working again, which in my mind I call "crawling" or "growth" with the yarn and thread. I have very little plan when I'm working this way, simply starting with one yarn, and stitch by stitch moving across the surface (or on 3D pieces, across open space) and then responding to whatever I have just done. It's and improvisation at every point, with no distinct end point or destination. Just a little journey. A journey of a thousand stitches. (...maybe that's what I should title it...)

You may be able to see this piece in person, and appreciate the stitches and textures more closely, at my events this summer (details in my newsletter--link in bio to sign up--next one comes out soon). I will also list it on my website shop with the next update and have it available for collection at Midwest Fire Fest and the Jefferson Best Dam Art Fair.

04/11/2026

One week left to see this piece, Revelation of the Softness Within, at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in the WVA Biennial show. It has been such an honor to be part of this show alongside so many fantastic artists from our state. I hope that this piece has served its purpose to those who viewed it, that it might have given one example of many possible examples, of the beauty and cohesion that could exist if we strove to find alignment and harmony instead of our tendency of domination and forcefulness.

03/11/2026

The newest piece in my "Unholed" series was completes earlier this week. One of my favorite parts of thisbpiece is the shadows it creates against the wall. I tried to capture them in the photos.

This series is an ongoing investigation of what it means to be "whole". If a hole is filled in, is that a healing, a repair, or something else--just the next iteration of one's identity and journey? Are you more complete than you were before? Is change a gain or a loss (a combination of both?) But which is more--what had been gained or what has diminished?

By calling these pieces "Unholed" I resist making a subjective claim about its state. Instead I only observe its objective truth--that the hole that was there is no longer simply a hole.

10x10 inches
Steel and cotton thread

Available for collection.

03/08/2026

"Existence in the Absence Of"
36x22x4 inches

First completed piece of 2026 and the third of a triad started last August.

One of my pieces on view at the Quad Cities Airport through April

03/05/2026

Tuesday was a solo road trip with me and a car-full of sculpture to the Quad Cities International Airport to drop off most of my current work for an exhibition at the airport gallery. I am so excited to have my work on display at the wonderful gallery space there, where it will be accessible to any travellers passing though. I am showing alongside Nick Shroeder, a ceramic artist out of Milwaukee, WI, AND , who works in encaustic. Seeing their work before installation was so fun--I know everything is going to look great together.

All works on display are available for collection and can be viewed on the Quad Cities website (link in bio).

I am so grateful to for the opportunity to exhibit in this space! Thanks to QC and their team for making this possible.

02/13/2026

Details of a piece from a project proposal from last fall. (Full piece last pic)

I loved working on this and it has inspired me to start a new series of work in this method. The way the thread and yarn "crawls" and "grows" over the surface is fascinating, and there are so many possible outcomes that could have happened.

I am looking forward to developing this technique more and offering some pieces for collection this year.

01/29/2026

I started this little experiment last month and am LOVING where its going. The funny thing is, I'm looking forward to starting another one but with just my normal white on white colors!

01/16/2026

WIP shots, including a selfie in the steel of my sculpture AND a selfie peeking through the knitted interior of it (peek close and you'll get my nose and one eyeball). Just for fun. Enjoying the process.

The WIP stage here is precious because the interior space slowly becomes inaccessible, a whole dimension of the piece, that exists solely to serve the outside, gradually blocked off. And then its like a new frontier again.

01/06/2026

WIP details on a piece that will debut at the Quad Cities Regional Airport in March. Peep thay crawly crochet!

12/05/2025

"Revelation of the Softness Within" is one of my newest pieces, completed in September of this year. The first in a series of three of this shape and style, it further inquires into the question I have pondered in previous pieces, "What does it mean for a thing to be of a completely different makeup on the inside than its makeup on the outside?". In this question, I'm prodding at themes of identity and labeling, of conflict and opposition. Ultimately I always seek to combine steel and yarn in a harmonious union, but along the way I aim to demonstrate tension and discord due to difference. How many ways can we find harmony amongst things that seem destined to dissonance? What does this tell us about seeking unity and cooperation in our "real" lives and systems?

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Watertown, WI
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http://amandalanger.art/

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