Lexi Arrietta

Lexi Arrietta is a mixed media artist whose work deals with absence, grief, madness, and memory. Her practice is rooted in personal history and early recollections, in examining coping mechanisms and the emotional relics of things not had. Lexi’s work reckons with feelings of ferality and transience; with how individual trauma or instability can move us to the outskirts of shared society, marking us, and drawing us nearer to a metaphorical wood’s edge, where the dividing line between nature and culture becomes shaky and blurred. Her practice explores the ways in which we try to compensate for loss and compartmentalize wilderness.

The artist grew up among the fields, woods, and waterways of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied art with Rico Gatson and Dawn Clements, and where she was awarded the Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity. Lexi has had her work exhibited at Van Der Plas Gallery in NYC, and was chosen as a Director's Choice Winner for Viridian Artists' 31st Annual International Juried Exhibition. She lives and works alongside her partner of many years and their two wild dogs.

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