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STATEMENT OF WORK
Lesley Bodzy is a multimedia artist based in New York City and Houston. Her work explores how materiality can give form and visibility to complex psychological experiences. The artist engages with textures and materials like resin, silicone, latex, acrylic, bronze, and 3D printing. She allows their malleability and resistance to point her toward a subject matter that emerges as a personal and meditative language. 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, like Linda Benglis and Eva Hess, Bodzy pursues compositions that highlight her interest in the imperfect and often blur the categories of relief, sculpture, and painting. These 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.