Alexandra Sherman paints the hush between people - the moment a hand pauses, a gaze lowers, a silhouette dissolves into lamplight. Working in muted palettes and vapor-soft blends, she suspends her figures in a liminal zone where realism blurs into reverie, letting absence and presence overlap like double exposure. Each canvas distills fragments of tenderness, concealment, and quiet longing; gestures so slight they verge on disappearence yet pulse with the weight of unspoken connection. Guided by intuition, personal memory, and a cinema-tinged sense of atmosphere, Sherman turns fleeting encounters into slow, luminous apparitions of intimacy.
Alexandra Sherman (Canadian, b. 1989, Tajikstan; lives and works in Los Angeles) earned her Design & Arts degree from Capilano University, British Columbia, and spent several years as an illustrator before devoting herself fully to painting. She has held solo exhibitions with Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles, SADE, Los Angeles, among several group exhibitions.
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Alexandra ShermanAnna, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanDorian, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanKyle, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanLucy II, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanRubber, 2025Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm -
Alexandra ShermanMe and the Wine and the City Lights, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanPoolside, 2025Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanRiver, 2023Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Alexandra ShermanLucy, 2025Acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.6 cm
