Community Canvas is an initiative presented by The Culture Show where GBH features artwork from community members on our Digital Mural.
Today’s mural is titled Where are you now? by Alexandra Rozenman. She grew up in the Soviet Union where artistic freedom was repressed.
In 1989, she came to America as a political refugee. “I struggled hard to shape my new personal and artistic identity,” Rozenman says. “That was the moment when my art became intrinsically connected to my life. Russian, European, and American folk tales and myths take a utopian and funny dimension in my work to tell a universal story through a personal one.”
Rozenman classically trained at the Soviet Academy of Arts for two years and later studied with dissident artists from Moscow’s underground movement. While still a teenager, she became part of Moscow’s alternative scene of the 1980s. After immigrating to the U.S., she spent the early 1990s in New York and earned her B.F.A. from SUNY in 1993. She later relocated to Boston, earning an M.F.A. from the School of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 1998.
See more of Rozenman’s work at alexandrarozenman.com
