Alexandra Roozen 1971

Lives in Rotterdam. Works in Rotterdam.

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NL=US Art

In large series of drawings, Alexandra Roozen shows that repetition is never the same. Based on set work rules, she repeats endless small hand gestures such as stripes, dots, scratches and lines. None of them can be drawn identically, it reflects the constant changes in the moment itself. The full impact reveals itself by replicating the process and design and presenting the resulting works in series.

Alexandra Roozen (NL) graduated from the art academy St. Joost (cum laude) and awarded several grants from Mondriaan Fund and CBK R’DAM. Her work has recently been exhibited at Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, (solo), Verbeke Foundation (BE), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (solo), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and at art fairs, including Art Rotterdam, VOLTA NY (USA) (solo), Volta Basel (CH), Art on Paper NY (USA) (solo) and Drawing Now Paris (FR).

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NL=US Gallery presents ‘Common Ground’, a solo exhibition with works on paper from various series by Alexandra Roozen.

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Seen by Hand

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Seen by Hand - catalogus

Text fragment from Seen by Hand, catalog by Alexandra Roozen; “In her drawings her work is a parallel to what since the 60s has been called fundamental painting, partly because it demands from the viewer a heightened attention to what I would call the autonomous or virtually material details of the result. Let us resist the temptation to interpret the traces in her drawings as traces of something else, and let us try to see them as events that want to be seen for what they are. In that case we also come very close as viewers to what it means for Alexandra Roozen to raise fundamental questions in order to make room for unexpected and perhaps unsought answers. After all, our questions are often no more than the formulation of a suspicion; it is all the more important to listen carefully and to look at the answers that are thrown into our lap.”