Personal Territories

Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic some are calling the greatest of our time, once said that “Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.”

Artists in this exhibition focus on three themes that have occupied each of them for a while: the city, the distant landscape, and the lush garden. This collection explores how each theme is distinctly different, exploring emotional ranges of a wildly divergent temperament, while simultaneously unifying them through the language of paint.

Artists: Jim Banks, Brenda Cirioni, John J. Daly, Joseph Fontinha, Catherine Gibbs, Nan Hass Feldman, Chris Plunkett, Marcia Wise

The Curator

Alexandra (Alya) Rozenman was born in Moscow, USSR, and was classically trained in a Soviet Art Academy. While still a teenager she became part of Moscow alternative cultural scene of the 1980’s, and later studied with today well-known dissident artists from the Moscow underground art movement. After she immigrated to the U.S, she lived in New York, being a part of what later became The Art Alliance program on Lower East Side. Rozenman received her BFA from SUNY and MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and studied with Gerry Bergstein and Robert Ferrandini. She received a MacDowell Foundation Fellowship in 2006. Rozenman exhibits both nationally and internationally, most recently at Trustman Gallery in Simmons College in Boston, and Hudson Gallery in Gloucester, MA.