Artist Statement

Illusion. Displacement. Otherness. These fundamental aspects of my identity and of the contemporary world around us come together in my work to tell a universal story through my personal one. Art History, History, Russian, European and American folktales and myths lend a utopian and humorous dimension to my work.

I am drawn to moments of tension and transition: a bird mid-flight, snow beginning to fall, an alarm clock ringing. Everyday objects—teapots, clocks, windows—become metaphors for time and longing. My paintings often reveal humor and melancholy coexisting within the same frame, reflecting the contradictions of migration and memory.

Artist Bio

Alexandra Rozenman was born in Moscow, USSR. She was classically trained at the Soviet Academy of Arts for two years and later studied with dissident artists, well-known today, from Moscow’s underground movement. While still a teenager, she became part of Moscow’s alternative scene of the 1980s. After immigrating to the US, she spent the early 1990s in New York, becoming a part of what later became the International Art Alliance on the Lower East Side and earning her BFA from SUNY in 1993. She later relocated to Boston, earning an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1998, and studying with Gerry Bergstein and Robert Ferrandini. Her paintings and drawings blend the styles and symbols of folk art, Russian Underground Conceptualism, illustration, and Jewish art.

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