Based in Queens, New York, multimedia artist Lexie Caprariello explores the contours of bodies, thoughts, and landscapes—both earthly and imagined. Her paintings, illustrations, and mixed-media works bloom from the tension between the sublime and the unsettling. In her hands, beauty and the grotesque are not opposites but companions, circling one another in a quiet conversation. Through this entwining, she seeks the fragile connection where inner worlds meet the natural one, and where darkness makes the light more luminous.