# Alexandra Rozenman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexandra_Rozenman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alexandra_Rozenman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rozenman > Source revision: 1346302534 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Alexandra Rozenman** is a contemporary Russian-American painter, graphic designer, and book illustrator. She draws upon various styles such as folk art, Russian Underground Conceptualism, and Jewish art.[1] She is recognized for her works where visual artifacts are used as the means for telling intricate, idiosyncratic, compelling stories. Her work has been on exhibit in the leading museums, including the [National Centre for Contemporary Arts](/source/National_Centre_for_Contemporary_Arts) in her native Moscow, and [deCordova Museum](/source/DeCordova_Museum) in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Rozenman lives in Boston and works in Somerville, Massachusetts. ## Early life and education Rozenman was born in [Moscow, Russia](/source/Moscow,_Russia) (then [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)). Her early influences included an art school for gifted child artists at the [Pushkin Museum](/source/Pushkin_Museum) - at that time the only venue for Western art shows in Moscow, both ancient and modern. [Nina N. Kofman](/source/Nina_N._Kofman), an art educator, ran an art school for very young children at the museum, actively using its collection as a study aide. Several of Rozenman's works from that period have been shown at the international shows of children's art (in Russia, Japan, India, and Finland, among others). Later on, Rozenman studied with several dissident artists who went on to become famous in the West, including [Grisha Bruskin](/source/Grisha_Bruskin). When Rozenman's family emigrated from Russia to the US in 1989, she continued her art education there, participating in the Studio Semester in New York Program at SUNY [Empire State College](/source/Empire_State_College) (she graduated in 1995), and proceeding to Boston, where she earned her MFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts[2] at Tufts University in 1997. ## Career Rozenman worked in many places in the US, including the East Coast (Washington, New York City, and Boston), West Coast (Los Angeles), and Mid-West (East Lansing, Michigan, and Saint Paul, Minnesota), striving to capture her life experience, and developing a unique, highly personal way of expressing the American reality of today. She straddles the distinctly European world with recognizable Russian and Jewish influences (mostly of [Marc Chagall](/source/Marc_Chagall), whose first wife, [Bella Chagall](/source/Bella_Chagall), frequently depicted as a flying female figure in his early paintings, is Rozenman's great-aunt) and the uniquely American experience of freedom and thirst for deeper meaning of life interwoven with art. Today, Rozenman was a core member of the Fountain Street Gallery, from 2018, until it closed recently in 2024.[3] ## Paintings Over three decades, starting as a child artist, Rozenman went through several periods, capturing life experiences in images. They reflect, on the one hand, her highly personal accounts of love, loss, and search for beauty, and on the other hand—the environments of Russia, California, New York City, Boston, Midwest, and Europe. In one of her recent series of paintings, called *[Transplanted](/source/Transplanted_(Alexandra_Rozenman))*, Rozenman superimposes her own images with iconic works of European and American artists, including [Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Leonardo_da_Vinci), [Breugel](/source/Peter_Bruegel_the_Elder), [Turner](/source/J._M._W._Turner), [Monet](/source/Monet), [Matisse](/source/Matisse) and [Diebenkorn](/source/Diebenkorn). This series, a part of which has been on display in Boston in 2013, represents the artist's search for a personal place in the story of the world art. ## Graphics Rozenman started working on small graphics format in her teens, selling art from the sidewalks of Moscow busy [Arbat Street](/source/Arbat_Street) thoroughfare. She returned to this form recently, partly for the purposes of book illustration. ## Book illustration Rozenman illustrated several books, including "Two Hands Clapping" a collaborative book of drawings with the British poet [Grace Andreacchi](/source/Grace_Andreacchi) (Andromache Books, London, 2009). Grace Andreacchi also published the video Two Hands Clapping on YouTube. She has recently finished illustrating "Sticky Leaves" by [Mikhail Epstein](/source/Mikhail_Epstein), a Russian-American literary theorist and critical thinker. ## Art school Since 2012, Rozenman has been running a popular art school with classes for children and adults in Allston, and later in Somerville, Massachusetts, offering classes, seminars, and workshops in experimental and classical painting and drawing. ## Principal solo exhibitions - 2023 - Collages, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN - 2018 - Blind Dates, Hudson Gallery, Gloucester, MA - 2016 - Broken Memories, J’s Bodzin Gallery, Fairfax, VA - 2015 - In Motion, Hammond Art Gallery, Fitchburg College, Fitchburg, MA - 2013 - Transplanted, Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA - 2014 - Tales On Paper, Newbury College, Brookline, MA - 2010 - La’ Magique, French Cultural Center, Boston, MA - 2010 - Life Or Theater? Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN - 2009 - Art Of Storytelling, The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Washington, DC - 2008 - Enter and Exit, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN, - 2006 - Hold Still, Goetemann Art Gallery, Gloucester, MA - 2003 - Changes, Argyle Zebra Gallery, Saint Paul, MN - 2000 - New Work, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - 1999 - After The Intermission, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN - 1998 - Playful Paintings, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA [4] ## References 1. ["Alexandra Rozenman Artist Biography-Singulart"](https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/alexandra-rozenman-62946?ref=ts). *www.singulart.com*. Retrieved 2025-09-09. 1. ["Alexandra Rozenman"](https://www.saatchiart.com/Rozenman). *Saatchi Art*. Retrieved 2021-05-22. 1. ["FOUNTAIN STREET"](https://www.fsfaboston.com/contact-us). *fsfaboston.com*. FOUNTAIN STREET. Retrieved 13 December 2024. 1. Rozenman, Alexandra (19 January 2025). ["List of Exhibitions on Art School website of Alexandra Rozenman"](https://www.artschool99somerville.com/post/art-exhibitions-by-alexandra-rozenman). Retrieved 3 June 2025. ## External links - [Alexandra Rozenman’s “Transplanted” at the Multicultural Arts Center](http://zine.artscopemagazine.com/2013/04/alexandra-rozenmans-transplanted-at-the-multicultural-arts-center/) - [Alexandra Rozenman | deCordova](https://web.archive.org/web/20140112225040/http://www.decordova.org/alexandra-rozenman) - [Simple Scenes from Alexandra Rozenman](http://www.thingsworthdescribing.com/2013/03/08/simple-scenes-from-alexandra-rozenman/) - [TWO HANDS CLAPPING](https://sites.google.com/site/andromachebooks/authors-1/alexandra-rozenman) - [The Brooklyner](http://brooklyner.org/2012/alexandra-rozenman/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alexandra Rozenman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rozenman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Rozenman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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