Bio
Alexandra Rubinstein is a Russian-born, Brooklyn-based conceptual artist working in painting, drawing, video, and sculpture. She immigrated to the United States in 1997, earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010, and has been living in New York ever since. Inspired by her adolescent (and ongoing) trauma, her work explores the relationships between culture, gender, consumption, and power. She reconstructs familiar and taboo images to create a new narrative, to provoke the conforming and regain control. Though rarely depicting women, her work is filled with cis heterosexual female presence, consumption, and bodily excess - all expressed through men’s bodies, leaving them passive and subject to scrutiny. She sometimes even minimizes men to their genitals, typically used to intimidate and oppress women, to further explore the role masculinity has played in shaping today’s social and political landscape. Rubinstein has exhibited at The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Spring Break Art Fair, Established Gallery, Satellite Art Club, Untitled Space, Proto Gallery, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and The Wing. She has been featured on Huffington Post, Paper Mag, Cosmopolitan, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Forbes, GQ, Playboy, Broad City, and Real Time with Bill Maher, as well as some podcasts.
