Alexandra Rozenman
Stories Between Worlds
Alexandra Rozenman creates contemporary paintings and mixed-media works that transform personal experience, folklore, history, and imagination into playful and often surreal visual narratives. Her paintings combine expressive color, unexpected figures, animals, objects, and shifting landscapes to create worlds that feel familiar and mysterious at once.
Drawing from Russian, European, and American folklore as well as her own experiences of displacement and cultural transition, Rozenman uses painting as a way to explore identity and the feeling of being an outsider. Her compositions move between abstraction and recognizable imagery, inviting viewers into stories that can be humorous, poignant, strange, or all three at once.
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About the Work
Rozenman approaches painting as a form of storytelling, using images much like words within a larger narrative. Figures, animals, furniture, landscapes, and architectural elements appear as characters and symbols, often placed in unusual relationships that create a sense of humor, mystery, and psychological tension.
Her landscapes are rarely straightforward depictions of place. Horizon lines can multiply or disappear, rooms can open into expansive environments, and familiar settings can become stages for encounters between people, animals, and imagined characters. In works such as Longitude, the landscape becomes both a physical setting and a metaphorical space for connection and distance.
Color and visual invention allow Rozenman to move between the personal and the universal. Her oil paintings often combine painterly passages with recognizable imagery, while her collage and works on paper incorporate found and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and colored pencil. Across these forms, she embraces a playful, surreal language through which questions of identity, displacement, belonging, and cultural memory can unfold.
Biography
Alexandra Rozenman is a Russian-American contemporary artist born in Moscow in 1971. She received classical art training in the Soviet Union before studying with artists associated with Moscow's underground art scene. After immigrating to the United States in 1989, she spent time in New York and earned her BFA in Painting from SUNY Empire State College, followed by an MFA in Visual Arts and Arts Theory from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Rozenman has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions including Collages at Gallery 360 in Minneapolis, Blind Dates at Hudson Gallery in Gloucester, and Transplanted at the Multicultural Art Center in Cambridge. She received a MacDowell Foundation Fellowship in 2006 and has exhibited at institutions and galleries throughout the United States. She is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she maintains her studio and runs an art school for children and adults.
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