Artist Profile: Lea Simoniello

Overview:
Lea Simoniello’s work is a deeply personal excavation of body, gender, and psychological landscape. Through oil painting, graphite, and textile sculpture—particularly her hand-sewn, functional soccer balls—Simoniello explores themes of femininity, masculinity, abuse, athleticism, and vulnerability. Her tightly rendered paintings operate as autobiographical therapy, navigating the tensions between societal expectation and self-perception in a world often indifferent to sensitivity.