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ABOUT

ARTIST STATEMENT

Lesley Bodzy is a multi-media artist 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 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.

ARTIST BIO

Lesley Bodzy holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BA from Mount Holyoke College, and a law degree from NYU. She also studied art at Hunter College and the Art Students League of New York. Her work is represented by galleries in Houston, TX, Saugerties, NY, Williamsburg, VA, and Jersey City, NJ and has been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Past exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC 2022, ChaShaMa and Sculptors Alliance in New York City, Holy Art Gallery in London, UK, Site:Brooklyn, Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY, the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA, and the Meadows Gallery in Tyler, TX. Recent press includes White Hot Magazine, Art Houston Magazine, Cultbytes, Art Fuse, and Art Spiel.

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