Irina Alimanestianu
2025
2024
2022-2023 2020-20212017-2019
2015-2016
2012-2014
2009-2011
2006-2008
2001-2004
1997-2000
Irina Alimanestianu is an American painter of Romanian descent, living and working in New York, NY.
Environment, body memory, and the spiritual experience felt therein, are central to her practice. The vibrational tones of landscape, object, and personal history come forth in her imagery. She paints, draws and collages. Her style has evolved from representational to abstraction, now including a mix thereof.
Irina’s work has been shown in the USA and Europe. Shows include “LA Current” at the Hammer Museum in 1998 in Los Angeles, CA, “Artists Choose Artists“ in 2019, chosen by Alexis Rockman, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Her paintings were presented in the traveling exhibition "New American Talent" in 2000 – 2001 which included The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, TX, curated by LA Times critic David Pagel. Solo shows include "Strands, Threads, Metabolic Meditations" at MM Fine Art Gallery in Southampton, NY in 2021, and “Solo” at Kravets/Wehby in New York, NY in 1999.
Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna, Austria, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, and the Pomona College Museum of Art in Pomona, CA. She received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University, CA, in 1998. She was raised in Switzerland, France, and New York.
2026
Environment, body memory, and the spiritual experience felt therein, are central to her practice. The vibrational tones of landscape, object, and personal history come forth in her imagery. She paints, draws and collages. Her style has evolved from representational to abstraction, now including a mix thereof.
Irina’s work has been shown in the USA and Europe. Shows include “LA Current” at the Hammer Museum in 1998 in Los Angeles, CA, “Artists Choose Artists“ in 2019, chosen by Alexis Rockman, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Her paintings were presented in the traveling exhibition "New American Talent" in 2000 – 2001 which included The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, TX, curated by LA Times critic David Pagel. Solo shows include "Strands, Threads, Metabolic Meditations" at MM Fine Art Gallery in Southampton, NY in 2021, and “Solo” at Kravets/Wehby in New York, NY in 1999.
Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna, Austria, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, and the Pomona College Museum of Art in Pomona, CA. She received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University, CA, in 1998. She was raised in Switzerland, France, and New York.
2026
Inspired by tangible forms of landscape and the intangible essence of memory and myth I map the unseen connections between ourselves and the inexplicable language of frequencies that weaves through intention, action, and nature.
Through a process of layering and erasure, I build images that are sensory mappings - visual diaries of environment, mood, memory, and the eons of evolution stored within us. Each work becomes a living portrait of time and place, working to capture the intelligence of nature and the everchanging essence of a moment.
My hope is to encourage the viewer to allow the boundaries between self and nature to dissolve, revealing the shared pulse that unites all.”
Irina Alimanestianu
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