Alexandra Roussopoulos (b.1969) ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Roussopoulos pastel abstractions, mobile forms, and monochrome geometries are at once minimal, expansive and luminous. They are exuberant and refined meditations on psycho-geography, political space and personhood. Roussopoulos explores the free and mobile body abstracted to pure presence, at once changeable, responsive and creative that dwells in the urban landscape or the distilled geometries of space. For its femaleness and poetry, we agree wholeheartedly with curator Brooks Adams: Roussopoulos work should be compared to Georgia O'Keefe's American masterpieces. Her work conjures Heidegger's dwelling: in which being in the world is the nature of being itself, its etymology implying, on one hand, building, on the other, cherishing, and protecting. Of Swiss and Greek descent, Roussopoulos was raised in the creative and political nexus of the counterculture of Paris '68, whose legacy of feminism, activism, creativity and community her mother was a well-known feminist filmmaker and activist; her father, a physicist, activist, painter and creator of architectonic kites continues to inform her work. She dwells and paints in the same sky-lit modernist house in the Paris 14th where she was raised. Alexandra Roussopoulos by Marie Deteneuille.
CV EDUCATION: Alexandra studied at Heatherley s School of Art, Camberwell School of Art in London, and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. EXHIBITIONS SELECTED 2016 Young Memories, a cycle of Nine exhibitions curated at the Galerie épisodique, Paris Main à Main, Pixi-Marie-Victoire Poliakoff Gallery, Paris, France Early as Snow, 33 rue de Grenelle, Paris, France Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA Grande Fontaine Gallery, Sion, Switzerland The Poetic Community, Xiamen, China Chamalot artist residency, Corrèze, France Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France Nissi 16 artist residency, Spetses, Greece Salon Zürcher, Galerie Zûrcher, New-York, USA Pifo Gallery, Beijing, China 2015 Open Door Studio, Pifo Gallery, Beijing, China Women on Paper, Gallery 35, French Institute, Prague, Czech Republic Parties Communes, APDV Art Center, Paris, France L Échapée Belle, Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Le Dépays, Solo exhibition Louis Moret Foundation, Martigny, Switzerland Art MO, Macao International Art Fair, with Pifo New Art Gallery, Beijing, China Feel Paris, group exhibition with Cathryn Boch, Paris, France Swaim, Art Lelege Gallery, Beijing, China Soon Paris, limited edition art fair, with Scrawitch Editions, Paris, France 2014 Dépaysages, Scrawitch Gallery, Paris, France Insurrections, Episodique gallery, Paris, France Déplacements, National Wetland Museum of China, Hangzhou, China Nissi 2014, Artist Residency, Spetses, Greece 2013 Gallery Moos, curated by Gordon Novak, Toronto, Canada Art Gallery of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada Home sweet home, curated by Anne Destival and Callisto Mc Nulty, London, England Yard Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 2012 Les Châteaux Ambulants, Scrawitch gallery, Paris, France Pullman Hotel, Zhang Jiaje, China Cent papiers et autres formes migrantes, LAC, curated by Véronique Ribordy, Vevey, Switzerland 2011 Supercalifragilistic, Louis Moret Foundation, Martigny, Switzerland Dépeindre, 6b, Saint-Denis, France La nuit remue, Episodique Gallery, Paris, France 2010 Avenir incertain, utopies multiples, Pixi-Marie-Victoire Poliakoff gallery, Paris, France Là-haut, invited by par Benjamin Swaim, le Sphinx, Paris, France Espace Inventé, Espace Rachel Debreuve, Auxerre, France Transfrontaliers, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik, Hôtel de Ville, Sochaux, France
Dialogue d Artistes Blanc sur Fond Blanc, Pixi-Marie-Victoire Poliakoff gallery, Paris, France Pas du jeu, curated by Véronique Ribordy, le Manoir, Martigny, Suisse, Switzerland Le loft Sévigné, curated by Camille Lambert, Paris, France PRESS & PUBLICATIONS SELECTED 2016 Roussopoulos, Alexandra and Jacques Frézal, Young Memories, Galerie épisodique, 2016. Roussopoulos, Alexandra, Marie-Fabienne Aymon, Cathryn Boch, Judith Espinas, Matthew Gounelle, Olivia lefebvre, Jacky Maglia and Hisako Omori, Regis Seneca. NISSI 14. Ebook. 1st ed. Paris: Naima Editions. 2014 Alexandra Roussopoulos, Nouvelle Île Paintings and Poems of Matthew Gounelle. Montimage Publishing. Alexandra Roussopoulos and Serge Poliakoff, Conversation.Episodic Gallery, 2014 2011 Alexandra Roussopoulos, Elizabeth Lebovizci and Emmanuelle Liqueur, Forma Fabulis. Buchet-Chastel. 2008 Alexandra Roussopoulos, Alexandra Roussopoulos. Galerie Pixi-Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris.
WORKS SELECTED Les Châteaux Ambulants,acrylic on paper, Bay Window 70 x 50cm, Les Châteaux Ambulants 1 70 x 30cm, Les Châteaux Ambulants 2 70 x 30cm,
Wall painting, acrylic and rice paper, 400 x 600 cm, 2014. Wall painting, acrylic and rice paper, 120 x 110 cm, 2014. Dapaysages Exhibition, lithographs, 2014.