Artist's Statement
Lexi Arrietta (she/they) is a mixed media sculptor and installation artist. Their work deals with absence, intimacy, madness, memory, and the ways in which we try to compensate for loss and compartmentalize wilderness. Arrietta combines natural and manmade elements to create material intersections that obscure their hand as the artist, arousing the sense of stumbling upon something both uncanny and innately recognizable. Familiar objects become landscapes of growth and dilapidation, emotional lifeforms abandoned to their own devices. Through mimicry of nature and entropy, the artist exploits our felt sense of what resonates as true, and rears questions of perception, trust,
attachment, and self.
Arrietta grew up among the fields, woods, and waterways of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
They hold a BA from Sarah Lawrence College,
where they studied art with Rico Gatson and Dawn
Clements, and where they were awarded the Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity. Arrietta has had
their work exhibited at The Delaware Contemporary, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Rhizome DC,
George Washington University, Schuylkill Center
for Environmental Education, Chesapeake Arts Center, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Da Vinci Art Alliance, and Van Der Plas Gallery, among others. They are a curator at Automat Collective, and currently live and work between Washington, DC
and Philadelphia, PA.