Lesley Bodzy
Lesley Bodzy’s work explores the ways in which materiality can give form and visibility to psychologically complex experiences. Trauma, loss, and desire are recurring themes that emerge through material processes and a thoughtfully devised personal metaphorical language. The artist engages with a multitude of textures and consistencies that once molded conjure the complexities and intricacies of emotional dimensions that would otherwise remain invisible. She often engages with 3D printing, plexiglass, acrylic paint and other materials and processes that invite intuitive gestures performed to simultaneously acknowledge and exorcise the past. She instigates the components of her works to commingle and conspire, allowing their malleability and resistance to point her towards a subject that emerges as part of a personal and meditative concentration. The delicate yet resistant surfaces create new and unpredictable cycles of associations and challenge assumptions around expressions of vulnerability, restraint, and strength. Bodzy pursues compositions which highlight her interest in the imperfect and incomplete 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 often concealed or barely perceptible in our lives.
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