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 are building blocks for 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 are building blocks for 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
I paint and draw intuitively, trusting my senses and nature’s presence to dialogue and offer suggestions, to lead as I create. I start with color, shape, and line not yet aware of what I am making. Then my “trained eye” chimes in, bringing focus, structure, composition, and sometimes narrative to the process and final image. The painting is done when it resonates for me with a sense of place, of human condition, and hopefully with the feeling, however elusive, of wonder. “ My work aims to connect us to awe and wonder, and to share my experience of being.
Irina Alimanestianu
2026_04_16