‘Between imagination and reality’

“Healing Each Other Under the Moonlight” (oil on canvas), by Alexandra Rozenman, in her show “Luftmensch”, at Kingston Gallery, Boston, April 30-May 30.

She says:

“‘Luftmensch’ is a series of narrative paintings that developed from the “Kind Monsters’’, exploring storytelling, artistic lineage, and the fragile nature of identity. The Yiddish word luftmensch—literally ‘air person’—describes someone who lives between imagination and reality.

“Born in Moscow and trained among underground dissident artists during the late Soviet Union, when modernist art was restricted, I developed a practice shaped by resistance, memory, and personal mythology. After immigrating to the United States, my work evolved into narrative paintings that weave together personal history, art history, and cultural memory.’’