Alexandra Rozenman’s “Diving into Modernism” will be among the works on display at Brickbottom Gallery January 27 – February 26.

From January 27 to February 26, Brickbottom Gallery will be presenting Space Color Movement: Lyrical Realism into Poetic Abstraction, featuring the work of three painters – Alexandra Rozenman, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Philip Gerstein, friends and allies in real life.

The artists come together in this show, delighting in the seeming contradiction of their styles.  The intention is to present both realist and abstract paintings together, grouped in trios.

This unusual arrangement will allow to contrast and compare each artist’s different, equally engaging approach to forming a composition, unifying the painterly field of action, and utilizing color in emotional, constructive and psychologically complex ways.

As painters, and especially color-based painters, we now live in particularly exciting times.  We can choose to situate ourselves on the shoulders of so many giants, aided by the universal availability of art historical images in full color over the web.

The near-musical vibration provided by the color-filled work of these three painters will act in concert in this exhibition to offer a particularly rich, layered and expanding experience, in the midst and in positive contrast to our year of toil, contraction and isolation.

Opening reception Sunday, February 6, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville.