Irina Alimanestianu
20242022-2023 2020-20212017-2019
2015-2016
2012-2014
2009-2011
2006-2008
2001-2004
1997-2000
Irina Alimanestianu is an American painter living in Southampton, NY. She has an MBA from Columbia University, NY and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She was raised in Switzerland, France, and New York.
Irina has a painting practice of 35 years. She paints, draws and collages. Her style has evolved from realism to abstraction or a mix of them. Her 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. David Pagel included her paintings in three shows, one was a traveling exhibition in Texas, “New American Talent in 2000 – 2001”. She had a solo show in NYC at Kravets/Wehby in 1999 and one in 2021 in Southampton NY. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Spain, the Parrish Art Museum in NY, and the Pomona College Museum of Art in CA. She wrote for Art Issues publication in 1998 and 99.
Irina has a painting practice of 35 years. She paints, draws and collages. Her style has evolved from realism to abstraction or a mix of them. Her 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. David Pagel included her paintings in three shows, one was a traveling exhibition in Texas, “New American Talent in 2000 – 2001”. She had a solo show in NYC at Kravets/Wehby in 1999 and one in 2021 in Southampton NY. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Spain, the Parrish Art Museum in NY, and the Pomona College Museum of Art in CA. She wrote for Art Issues publication in 1998 and 99.
We are connected to the world not only through what we see and understand, but also through the unseen and the unknown. An ever-present nonverbal language surrounds us, collectively experienced yet deeply personal. It exists in the frequencies created by intention, action, and nature’s constant evolution. It moves through the rays of electromagnetic energy that bathe our solar system and pass through our very being.
They say the earth has a hum, and that we each walk to the beat of our own drum—frequencies.
My paintings are mappings, visual diaries of how I experience the world. They translate the intangible, capturing the energies that shape our existence.”
Irina Alimanestianu
2025_03_08