Lesley Bodzy is a feminist sculptor and painter based in New York City and Houston. Her work explores how materiality can give form and visibility to psychological experiences. Toxic beauty, body modifications, and power are recurring themes that emerge through material processes and a thoughtfully devised personal metaphorical language. The artist engages with textures and consistencies that once molded conjure intricacies of emotional dimensions that would otherwise remain invisible. She often engages with resin, silicone, plastics, acrylics, bronze, 3D printing, and other materials and processes that invite intuitive gestures performed as a way to acknowledge societal pressures.

Bodzy’s practice is steeped in a fascination with materials and their expressive potential. She instigates the components of her works to commingle and conspire, allowing their malleability and resistance to point her toward a subject that emerges as part of a personal and meditative concentration. Interchangeable delicate, raw, and resistant surfaces create new associations and challenge assumptions around expressions of vulnerability, restraint, and strength.

Taking cues from pioneers of sculptural abstraction of the 1970s, Bodzy pursues compositions that highlight her interest in the imperfect and often blur the categories of relief, sculpture, and painting. These more minimalist tendencies are often counterpointed by bold colors that dramatize each piece to draw attention to what is concealed or barely perceptible in our lives.