Hugh Lassen

 Hugh Lassen was born in 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He learned to carve after seeing a small Native American spear weight carving (also called a “Bird Stone”) in a museum. This surprising event lead him to study sculpture at the Art Students League of New York and drawing at the Spring Studio, NY.  Often an idea will emerge from a drawing and will provide the beginning for a sculpture. By carving directly in the stone or wood the idea will be refined until, hopefully, it works in the round.  He lives with his wife and two children in Cherryfield, Maine.  
    
Artist's Statement
    I find that my own sculptural aims revolve around mass, bulk, weight, in a phrase - ponderable form. For many years I've studied the figure using a range of exercises to develop my sense of touch. From these efforts and from my experiences carving, I realize that my work is founded on the human form, and occasionally, on animal forms.

Resumé

His work appeals to my appreciation of  beautiful, clean,
simple shapes.
~Bruce Brown, curator emeritus Center for Maine Contemporary Art

"Seed Form"

  Arching Form   granite on granite base   47x47x24    $9,500

Emerging Form  granite on granite base        33 x 27 x 28

"Sea Form" installed at The Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine, November 2014

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"Clasp" in its new home in Boston

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"Bud Form" joins "Clasp" in its new home in Boston.

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Rhino  2015   granite 49x54x34  on granite base  43x45x12
Installed August, 2017 at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House
​University of Maine Foundation

"Recumbent Form" in its new home in Downeast Maine.

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Hugh Lassen's Shelter Form (left) has been purchased by the Northeast Harbor Library. Click here to read more.

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