The Genesis of an Enigma Lee Lozano, born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, was an artist whose very identity was a masterclass in reinvention and self-definition. At just fourteen, she shed her given name for Lee, and at times even the singular, enigmatic e, establishing a persona defined by simplicity and mystery. Her intellectual journey was as rigorous as her visual output; studying philosophy and natural sciences at the University of Chicago provided a profound scientific and contemplative foundation that would later underpin her most radical conceptual gestures. After traveling thro…