There is a moment, somewhere in the middle of every mixed media collage, when the artwork stops being a plan and starts being a conversation. A torn strip of magazine paper lands on top of a wash of blue ink. You answer with a quick sweep of acrylic. The paper answers back with its texture. The ink bleeds through. Suddenly, the piece is making decisions with you. That is the magic of mixed media collage — and it is also why so many artists who once thought of themselves as "just painters" or...

If you find yourself in the Boston area this weekend, May 2–3, prepare for a city-wide transformation. Somerville Open Studios (SOS) 2026 is officially here, and it remains one of the largest and most vibrant celebrations of local creativity in the country. This year, over 420 artists are opening their doors across 120+ locations. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or just someone who enjoys a good Saturday stroll, the energy in the streets—fueled by the iconic SOS trolleys and the buzz of...

Alexandra Rozenman is a Moscow-born Russian-American artist whose surreal, figurative paintings and collages weave personal symbols, folklore, and psychological narratives into dreamlike scenes of displacement and belonging. A political refugee who arrived in the United States in 1989, Rozenman earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1998 and has since built a career that bridges Soviet underground conceptualism, Jewish folk traditions (including family ties to...