Unfolding Roads at Fountain Street Gallery

Alexandra Rozenman, Thinking One Year Back

Artscope eblast
Kristin Wissler

Unfolding Roads is on view at Fountain Street Gallery through February 28. This exhibit features the paintings and collages of Alexandra Rozenman, as well as the sculptures and drawings of Nora Valdez. Both artists are immigrants, from the former Soviet Union and Argentina respectively, and this part of their identities is reflected in their artwork. Rozenman's pieces are large and expansive, depicting a vast world of images, symbols, history and famous artworks. Her early life in Russia influences her approach to beauty and wonder to this day, and her search for belonging forms the core of her art. Her artworks endeavor to show us the larger story that each of us are only one small part in. Nora Valdez also explores belonging and displacement in her art, feelings she understands from her background as an immigrant from Argentina. Her sculptures and drawings convey a sense of dislocation and constant movement, each resulting in the desire to put down roots and find a place to stay. They express both the anxiety of the artist, and the collective anxiety experienced in times of upheaval, not unlike the upheaval of the past year. Unfolding Roads asks us to think about where we came from and how those places influence us today.