Purple Magazine
— S/S 2015 issue 23

Lizzi Bougatsos

sexy, badass, motherfucker of an artist text by KIM GORDON portrait by DEVYN GALINDO   Usually the word “heteronormative” is used in a context referring to gender. Lizzi’s art practice seems always to be working against the heteronormative of the art world. Her fluidity of movement, from her live performances to the performative art-making in a studio (borrowed, finagled, stolen, won), eventually comes to a reluctant rest and stillness within the sculptures or huddled compositions of found objects, adopted, disrupted, scooped up, and thrust into her sight. Movement. Made clear. Liquid glass, sexy on a piece of slate, on top of a piece of paper with a line drawn on it, impossibly flat, flat on flat. Working art residencies to gain studio space. You can see the Lower East Side in a sculpture or New Mexico or Miami. Her latest landing is Elaine de Kooning’s old studio, clean, light, and…

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