Loretta Bozung

Loretta Bozung is a sculptor whose practice explores endurance, transformation, and the resilient fragility of the human condition. Originally from Southern California, she began her career as a painter, living and exhibiting in New York before receiving a full scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute, where her fascination with ceramics led her into sculpture. She earned her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, developing a practice centered on large-scale sculpture.

A significant shift in her health redirected both her life and studio practice. During a period of healing, Bozung turned to more malleable materials—yarn, textiles, sticks, and found objects, many of which carry intimate histories from people close to her, her own collections, and the natural world.

Through these vulnerable materials, Bozung examines how bodies and structures endure damage, adapt, repair, and age. Fraying, bending, weathering, and stretching become metaphors for the body, while layering and repetition create structures that negotiate fragility, strength, instability, and equilibrium. Her work inhabits the space between rupture and repair, where memory, fortitude, scar tissue, adaptability, and joy coexist.

Bozung maintains studios in Los Angeles and among the redwoods of Northern California, where she lives with her poodle, Zuzu.