Aperta Studio

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South Park Lake House

A new single-family home for a local family near the edge of a lake south of town.

Status: In design.

Aperta app screenshots
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Applications

Aperta

A new kind of social platform: simple, local, and ephemeral. Aperta connects people through proximity, presence, posts, drops, gigs, and spots.

    Status: Live on the App Store

    Selected artwork
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    Bloom

    Self-hosted p5.js sketch · chronological #01.

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    Generative Systems

    Bubble Magnetism

    A curated wheel of self-hosted p5.js systems: motion, drawing, time, language, and interaction.

    Abstract artwork
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    Hand-Crafted Abstracts

    Abstract Study 04

    Material studies in paint, paper, texture, color, and digital fields.

    Bond
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    Pattern Development

    Bond

    TileKons are a serial image system built from fragments of paintings, drawings, and photographs that are mirrored, rotated, cropped, and color-shifted into compact square icons. Each piece starts with existing visual material, then turns it into a new symmetrical object somewhere between tile, mask, textile, symbol, and digital artifact. The series is less about a single source image than about transformation: how a small fragment can become a complete visual system through repetition, reflection, and compression.

    Figures artwork
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    Faces + Figures

    Mercury

    A tighter sequence of face studies, ordered from the source folder 01–10.

    Mammatus 01
    Image Type
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    Photography Experiments

    Mammatus 01

    Photography / rodeo photo #17

    FEED

    Loose notes, half-thoughts, work in progress.

    This page is intentionally less polished — a studio wall for rough thoughts, fragments, sketches, links, things in motion, and ideas that are not ready to behave.

    loading scraps…

    Pulling the messy stuff onto the wall.

    Feed

    Quiet signals from the studio as the public feed comes online.

    From X

    Short public notes, links, process fragments, and conversations worth carrying forward.

    Coming: live import

    Video

    Future YouTube essays, build logs, studio updates, and visual process.

    Coming: channel feed

    Listening

    Spotify playlists and music signals feeding the studio mood.

    Coming: playlist embed

    Now

    Current experiments, open questions, prototypes, drops, and work moving across categories.

    Studio log

    Buildings, images, and tools — three connected modes of one studio.

    Architecture gives the practice consequence, place, and real constraints. Artwork keeps it open to atmosphere, intuition, symbol, and discovery. Applications extend the work through systems, AI, and practical tools. Each leg supports the others.

    Jeff Lawrence portrait

    Aperta Studio is the multidisciplinary practice of Jeff Lawrence, AIA — a licensed architect with more than 25 years of experience in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

    Jeff grew up in Nashville making art before diving deep into architecture, and the two have never separated — he creates architecture with an artist's perception and develops art and applications with the experience of an architect. His studio, Aperta, moves between the pragmatic demands of building, open-ended visual exploration, and the practical software it now develops, pairing structure and constraints with curiosity, intuition, and intense consideration. The work stays grounded in clear communication and technical care, while remaining open to the experiments that sharpen how the studio sees, tests, and makes.

    Before founding the studio, Jeff spent 18 years at CLB Architects as Associate and Project Architect/Manager, contributing to significant regional work at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jackson Hole Airport, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, Big Sky Town Center, other commercial developments, and a wide range of high-end custom residences. Since 2019 he has practiced independently, designing custom homes, remodels, additions, guest houses, and mixed-use work across Western Wyoming, Eastern Idaho, and Northern Colorado.

    Contact

    Start a conversation.

    For architecture inquiries, aligned creative collaborations, software projects, or studio questions, reach out directly.

    Mailing

    P.O. Box 2076
    Jackson, WY 83001