Alexandra Rozenman’s teaching career grows directly out of her own life as an artist: Moscow-born, classically trained, shaped by Soviet underground culture, and later educated in the United States. Before she became known in Boston as a painter, illustrator, and founder of Art School 99, she had already lived through several models of art education: children’s museum classes in Moscow, the influence of dissident artists, formal academic training, and the professional pressur

New work by Alexandra Rozenman A handmade collage book begun during a recent stay on Nantucket follows a mythical cat as it slips from one form into another. During a recent stay of several weeks on Nantucket, Somerville-based artist and teacher Alexandra Rozenman began creating a new collage book titled Autumn Harvest of a Cat. The book is still a work in progress. Across its painted and assembled pages, a mythical cat travels through shifting landscapes and gradually refuse

Rozenman at the Kingston Gallery May 2, 2026: “How many Couples Do you See?”, 30x40”, 2025 / “Two Worlds Collided “, 32x36”, 2025 This spring, Boston’s SoWa district is home to one of the most emotionally layered and visually arresting exhibitions currently on view in the city. In the Project Space at Kingston Gallery, Russian-American painter Alexandra Rozenman presents Luftmensch, a haunting and deeply personal cycle of narrative paintings that blur the line between folklor

Notes from a Life in Art, Exile, Teaching, and Continuous Transformation I grew up in Moscow in a family where art and history were always present, even when politics and uncertainty pressed heavily against everyday life. My great-grandfather was killed during Stalin’s Great Purge, and the stories surrounding that loss stayed with my family for generations. At the same time, my parents surrounded me with books, music, and visual culture. Art was never treated as decoration in

Dancers Room with the View 24х48, 2015, oil on canvas, available "Dancers Room with the View" started as planned with a big mirror hanging at an angle in such a way that we will be able to see the reflection of the floor striped blue rug in it. What is important is that the sink above which it suppose to be hanging does not exist. It is just a table with things on it including vase of flowers, soap bar, unfinished breakfast with a fried egg, cups, glasses, but there is no s

A few months back I painted a painting called "View from a Writer's Studio Window" In this painting I tell us a story looking through a...

Untangle Sails! oil on canvas, 28x28", 2012 sold Somerville artist Alexandra Rozenman brings a rare combination of wit, vulnerability, and visual imagination to her paintings. In her Art at SCATV interview with Janet Cormier, recorded around her Right Turns exhibition at the SCATV Gallery, Rozenman discusses the roots of her art, her recurring symbols, her childhood in Moscow, and the deeply personal stories behind the works on display. Rozenman’s artistic path began early. B